From 4286138e7b06e5dd2cb1e8ebf12f768d018be3c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 07:43:02 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] #2220: handle matching failure more gracefully.

---
 Lib/rlcompleter.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/rlcompleter.py b/Lib/rlcompleter.py
index dab0cb9eaa3..a2d5fe6a8f0 100644
--- a/Lib/rlcompleter.py
+++ b/Lib/rlcompleter.py
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ class Completer:
         import re
         m = re.match(r"(\w+(\.\w+)*)\.(\w*)", text)
         if not m:
-            return
+            return []
         expr, attr = m.group(1, 3)
         object = eval(expr, self.namespace)
         words = dir(object)