From d458faadc303cef6fd07b9e22bfa9e08456426cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guido van Rossum Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 19:42:14 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] In completer(), return None instead of raising an IndexError when there are no more completions left. (This for compatibility with Donald Beaudry's code.) --- Lib/rlcompleter.py | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Lib/rlcompleter.py b/Lib/rlcompleter.py index e0ae72c9aca..92633abbc2f 100644 --- a/Lib/rlcompleter.py +++ b/Lib/rlcompleter.py @@ -58,7 +58,10 @@ class Completer: self.matches = self.attr_matches(text) else: self.matches = self.global_matches(text) - return self.matches[state] + try: + return self.matches[state] + except IndexError: + return None def global_matches(self, text): """Compute matches when text is a simple name.