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:mod:`readline` --- GNU readline interface
==========================================
.. module:: readline
:platform: Unix
:synopsis: GNU readline support for Python.
Merged revisions 59407-59422 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r59407 | armin.rigo | 2007-12-07 20:19:55 +0100 (Fri, 07 Dec 2007) | 2 lines This is probably what was meant here. ........ r59410 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-12-08 05:38:23 +0100 (Sat, 08 Dec 2007) | 2 lines Be (just a bit :) more specific about release date. ........ r59411 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2007-12-08 05:49:22 +0100 (Sat, 08 Dec 2007) | 3 lines Fix issue #1530. Return an error exit status if not all tests passes. ........ r59413 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-08 11:56:39 +0100 (Sat, 08 Dec 2007) | 2 lines Fix tpyo. ........ r59414 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-08 12:05:05 +0100 (Sat, 08 Dec 2007) | 2 lines Fix markup in whatsnew, use new directive in ACKS. ........ r59415 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-08 12:05:36 +0100 (Sat, 08 Dec 2007) | 2 lines Fix Eren's name. ........ r59416 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-08 12:23:13 +0100 (Sat, 08 Dec 2007) | 2 lines Add examples to the datetime documentation. Written for GHOP by "h4wk.cz". ........ r59417 | skip.montanaro | 2007-12-08 15:37:43 +0100 (Sat, 08 Dec 2007) | 2 lines Note that open() is the preferred way to open files (issue 1510). ........ r59418 | skip.montanaro | 2007-12-08 16:23:31 +0100 (Sat, 08 Dec 2007) | 1 line + "context manager" ........ r59419 | skip.montanaro | 2007-12-08 16:26:16 +0100 (Sat, 08 Dec 2007) | 1 line correct email address ........ r59420 | skip.montanaro | 2007-12-08 16:33:24 +0100 (Sat, 08 Dec 2007) | 3 lines When splitting, avoid making a copy of the string if the split doesn't find anything (issue 1538). ........
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.. sectionauthor:: Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>
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The :mod:`readline` module defines a number of functions to facilitate
completion and reading/writing of history files from the Python interpreter.
This module can be used directly or via the :mod:`rlcompleter` module. Settings
made using this module affect the behaviour of both the interpreter's
interactive prompt and the prompts offered by the built-in :func:`input`
function.
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.. note::
On MacOS X the :mod:`readline` module can be implemented using
the ``libedit`` library instead of GNU readline.
The configuration file for ``libedit`` is different from that
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of GNU readline. If you programmatically load configuration strings
you can check for the text "libedit" in :const:`readline.__doc__`
to differentiate between GNU readline and libedit.
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The :mod:`readline` module defines the following functions:
.. function:: parse_and_bind(string)
Parse and execute single line of a readline init file.
.. function:: get_line_buffer()
Return the current contents of the line buffer.
.. function:: insert_text(string)
Insert text into the command line.
.. function:: read_init_file([filename])
Parse a readline initialization file. The default filename is the last filename
used.
.. function:: read_history_file([filename])
Load a readline history file. The default filename is :file:`~/.history`.
.. function:: write_history_file([filename])
Save a readline history file. The default filename is :file:`~/.history`.
.. function:: clear_history()
Clear the current history. (Note: this function is not available if the
installed version of GNU readline doesn't support it.)
.. function:: get_history_length()
Return the desired length of the history file. Negative values imply unlimited
history file size.
.. function:: set_history_length(length)
Set the number of lines to save in the history file. :func:`write_history_file`
uses this value to truncate the history file when saving. Negative values imply
unlimited history file size.
.. function:: get_current_history_length()
Return the number of lines currently in the history. (This is different from
:func:`get_history_length`, which returns the maximum number of lines that will
be written to a history file.)
.. function:: get_history_item(index)
Return the current contents of history item at *index*.
.. function:: remove_history_item(pos)
Remove history item specified by its position from the history.
.. function:: replace_history_item(pos, line)
Replace history item specified by its position with the given line.
.. function:: redisplay()
Change what's displayed on the screen to reflect the current contents of the
line buffer.
.. function:: set_startup_hook([function])
Set or remove the startup_hook function. If *function* is specified, it will be
used as the new startup_hook function; if omitted or ``None``, any hook function
already installed is removed. The startup_hook function is called with no
arguments just before readline prints the first prompt.
.. function:: set_pre_input_hook([function])
Set or remove the pre_input_hook function. If *function* is specified, it will
be used as the new pre_input_hook function; if omitted or ``None``, any hook
function already installed is removed. The pre_input_hook function is called
with no arguments after the first prompt has been printed and just before
readline starts reading input characters.
.. function:: set_completer([function])
Set or remove the completer function. If *function* is specified, it will be
used as the new completer function; if omitted or ``None``, any completer
function already installed is removed. The completer function is called as
``function(text, state)``, for *state* in ``0``, ``1``, ``2``, ..., until it
returns a non-string value. It should return the next possible completion
starting with *text*.
.. function:: get_completer()
Get the completer function, or ``None`` if no completer function has been set.
Merged revisions 57778-58052 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r57820 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-31 08:59:27 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Document new shorthand notation for index entries. ........ r57827 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-31 10:47:51 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Fix subitem markup. ........ r57833 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-08-31 12:01:07 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line Mark registry components as 64-bit on Win64. ........ r57854 | bill.janssen | 2007-08-31 21:02:23 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line deprecate use of FakeSocket ........ r57855 | bill.janssen | 2007-08-31 21:02:46 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line remove mentions of socket.ssl in comments ........ r57856 | bill.janssen | 2007-08-31 21:03:31 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line remove use of non-existent SSLFakeSocket in apparently untested code ........ r57859 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-01 08:36:03 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 3 lines Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF. Will backport to 2.5. ........ r57865 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-01 09:51:24 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines Fix RST link (backport from Py3k). ........ r57876 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-01 17:49:49 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines Document sets' ">" and "<" operations (backport from py3k). ........ r57878 | skip.montanaro | 2007-09-01 19:40:03 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 4 lines Added a note and examples to explain that re.split does not split on an empty pattern match. (issue 852532). ........ r57879 | walter.doerwald | 2007-09-01 20:18:09 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines Fix wrong function names. ........ r57880 | walter.doerwald | 2007-09-01 20:34:05 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines Fix typo. ........ r57889 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 22:31:59 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line Markup fix ........ r57892 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 22:43:36 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line Add various items ........ r57895 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 23:17:58 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line Wording change ........ r57896 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 23:18:31 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line Add more items ........ r57904 | ronald.oussoren | 2007-09-02 11:46:07 +0200 (Sun, 02 Sep 2007) | 3 lines Macosx: this patch ensures that the value of MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET used by the Makefile is also used at configure-time. ........ r57925 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-03 09:16:46 +0200 (Mon, 03 Sep 2007) | 2 lines Fix #883466: don't allow Unicode as arguments to quopri and uu codecs. ........ r57936 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 01:33:04 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 2 lines - Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.6.x. ........ r57954 | mark.summerfield | 2007-09-04 10:16:15 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines Added cross-references plus a note about dict & list shallow copying. ........ r57958 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-04 11:51:57 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines Document that we rely on the OS to release the crypto context. Fixes #1626801. ........ r57960 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-04 15:13:14 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and get_completion_type to readline. ........ r57961 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-04 16:19:28 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its original source encoding. Will backport to 2.5. ........ r57972 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 20:17:36 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines - Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build environment. ........ r57973 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 21:05:38 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 2 lines - Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Remove whitespace at eol. ........ r57975 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 22:46:02 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 2 lines - Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*. ........ r57980 | bill.janssen | 2007-09-05 02:46:27 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 1 line SSL certificate distinguished names should be represented by tuples ........ r57985 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-05 08:39:17 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 3 lines Patch #1105: Explain that one needs to build the solution to get dependencies right. ........ r57987 | armin.rigo | 2007-09-05 09:51:21 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 4 lines PyDict_GetItem() returns a borrowed reference. There are probably a number of places that are open to attacks such as the following one, in bltinmodule.c:min_max(). ........ r57991 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-05 13:47:34 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 3 lines Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a readonly source. ........ r57993 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-05 15:36:44 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 2 lines Backport from Py3k: Bug #1684991: explain lookup semantics for __special__ methods (new-style classes only). ........ r58004 | armin.rigo | 2007-09-06 10:30:51 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 4 lines Patch #1733973 by peaker: ptrace_enter_call() assumes no exception is currently set. This assumption is broken when throwing into a generator. ........ r58006 | armin.rigo | 2007-09-06 11:30:38 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 4 lines PyDict_GetItem() returns a borrowed reference. This attack is against ceval.c:IMPORT_NAME, which calls an object (__builtin__.__import__) without holding a reference to it. ........ r58013 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-06 16:49:56 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 2 lines Backport from 3k: #1116: fix reference to old filename. ........ r58021 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-06 22:26:20 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 1 line Fix typo: c_float represents to C float type. ........ r58022 | skip.montanaro | 2007-09-07 00:29:06 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 3 lines If this is correct for py3k branch and it's already in the release25-maint branch, seems like it ought to be on the trunk as well. ........ r58023 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-09-07 00:59:59 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 4 lines Apply the fix from Issue1112 to make this test more robust and keep windows happy. ........ r58031 | brett.cannon | 2007-09-07 05:17:50 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 4 lines Make uuid1 and uuid4 tests conditional on whether ctypes can be imported; implementation of either function depends on ctypes but uuid as a whole does not. ........ r58032 | brett.cannon | 2007-09-07 06:18:30 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 6 lines Fix a crasher where Python code managed to infinitely recurse in C code without ever going back out to Python code in PyObject_Call(). Required introducing a static RuntimeError instance so that normalizing an exception there is no reliance on a recursive call that would put the exception system over the recursion check itself. ........ r58034 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-07 08:32:17 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 1 line Add a 'c_longdouble' type to the ctypes module. ........ r58035 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-07 11:30:40 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 1 line Remove unneeded #include. ........ r58036 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-07 11:33:24 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 6 lines Backport from py3k branch: Add a workaround for a strange bug on win64, when _ctypes is compiled with the SDK compiler. This should fix the failing Lib\ctypes\test\test_as_parameter.py test. ........ r58037 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-07 16:14:40 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 2 lines Fix a wrong indentation for sublists. ........ r58043 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-07 22:10:49 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 2 lines #1095: ln -f doesn't work portably, fix in Makefile. ........ r58049 | skip.montanaro | 2007-09-08 02:34:17 +0200 (Sat, 08 Sep 2007) | 1 line be explicit about the actual location of the missing file ........
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.. function:: get_completion_type()
Get the type of completion being attempted.
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.. function:: get_begidx()
Get the beginning index of the readline tab-completion scope.
.. function:: get_endidx()
Get the ending index of the readline tab-completion scope.
.. function:: set_completer_delims(string)
Set the readline word delimiters for tab-completion.
.. function:: get_completer_delims()
Get the readline word delimiters for tab-completion.
Merged revisions 57778-58052 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r57820 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-31 08:59:27 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Document new shorthand notation for index entries. ........ r57827 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-31 10:47:51 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Fix subitem markup. ........ r57833 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-08-31 12:01:07 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line Mark registry components as 64-bit on Win64. ........ r57854 | bill.janssen | 2007-08-31 21:02:23 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line deprecate use of FakeSocket ........ r57855 | bill.janssen | 2007-08-31 21:02:46 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line remove mentions of socket.ssl in comments ........ r57856 | bill.janssen | 2007-08-31 21:03:31 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line remove use of non-existent SSLFakeSocket in apparently untested code ........ r57859 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-01 08:36:03 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 3 lines Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF. Will backport to 2.5. ........ r57865 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-01 09:51:24 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines Fix RST link (backport from Py3k). ........ r57876 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-01 17:49:49 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines Document sets' ">" and "<" operations (backport from py3k). ........ r57878 | skip.montanaro | 2007-09-01 19:40:03 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 4 lines Added a note and examples to explain that re.split does not split on an empty pattern match. (issue 852532). ........ r57879 | walter.doerwald | 2007-09-01 20:18:09 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines Fix wrong function names. ........ r57880 | walter.doerwald | 2007-09-01 20:34:05 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines Fix typo. ........ r57889 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 22:31:59 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line Markup fix ........ r57892 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 22:43:36 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line Add various items ........ r57895 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 23:17:58 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line Wording change ........ r57896 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 23:18:31 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line Add more items ........ r57904 | ronald.oussoren | 2007-09-02 11:46:07 +0200 (Sun, 02 Sep 2007) | 3 lines Macosx: this patch ensures that the value of MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET used by the Makefile is also used at configure-time. ........ r57925 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-03 09:16:46 +0200 (Mon, 03 Sep 2007) | 2 lines Fix #883466: don't allow Unicode as arguments to quopri and uu codecs. ........ r57936 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 01:33:04 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 2 lines - Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.6.x. ........ r57954 | mark.summerfield | 2007-09-04 10:16:15 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines Added cross-references plus a note about dict & list shallow copying. ........ r57958 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-04 11:51:57 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines Document that we rely on the OS to release the crypto context. Fixes #1626801. ........ r57960 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-04 15:13:14 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and get_completion_type to readline. ........ r57961 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-04 16:19:28 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its original source encoding. Will backport to 2.5. ........ r57972 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 20:17:36 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines - Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build environment. ........ r57973 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 21:05:38 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 2 lines - Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Remove whitespace at eol. ........ r57975 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 22:46:02 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 2 lines - Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*. ........ r57980 | bill.janssen | 2007-09-05 02:46:27 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 1 line SSL certificate distinguished names should be represented by tuples ........ r57985 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-05 08:39:17 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 3 lines Patch #1105: Explain that one needs to build the solution to get dependencies right. ........ r57987 | armin.rigo | 2007-09-05 09:51:21 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 4 lines PyDict_GetItem() returns a borrowed reference. There are probably a number of places that are open to attacks such as the following one, in bltinmodule.c:min_max(). ........ r57991 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-05 13:47:34 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 3 lines Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a readonly source. ........ r57993 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-05 15:36:44 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 2 lines Backport from Py3k: Bug #1684991: explain lookup semantics for __special__ methods (new-style classes only). ........ r58004 | armin.rigo | 2007-09-06 10:30:51 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 4 lines Patch #1733973 by peaker: ptrace_enter_call() assumes no exception is currently set. This assumption is broken when throwing into a generator. ........ r58006 | armin.rigo | 2007-09-06 11:30:38 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 4 lines PyDict_GetItem() returns a borrowed reference. This attack is against ceval.c:IMPORT_NAME, which calls an object (__builtin__.__import__) without holding a reference to it. ........ r58013 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-06 16:49:56 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 2 lines Backport from 3k: #1116: fix reference to old filename. ........ r58021 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-06 22:26:20 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 1 line Fix typo: c_float represents to C float type. ........ r58022 | skip.montanaro | 2007-09-07 00:29:06 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 3 lines If this is correct for py3k branch and it's already in the release25-maint branch, seems like it ought to be on the trunk as well. ........ r58023 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-09-07 00:59:59 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 4 lines Apply the fix from Issue1112 to make this test more robust and keep windows happy. ........ r58031 | brett.cannon | 2007-09-07 05:17:50 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 4 lines Make uuid1 and uuid4 tests conditional on whether ctypes can be imported; implementation of either function depends on ctypes but uuid as a whole does not. ........ r58032 | brett.cannon | 2007-09-07 06:18:30 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 6 lines Fix a crasher where Python code managed to infinitely recurse in C code without ever going back out to Python code in PyObject_Call(). Required introducing a static RuntimeError instance so that normalizing an exception there is no reliance on a recursive call that would put the exception system over the recursion check itself. ........ r58034 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-07 08:32:17 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 1 line Add a 'c_longdouble' type to the ctypes module. ........ r58035 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-07 11:30:40 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 1 line Remove unneeded #include. ........ r58036 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-07 11:33:24 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 6 lines Backport from py3k branch: Add a workaround for a strange bug on win64, when _ctypes is compiled with the SDK compiler. This should fix the failing Lib\ctypes\test\test_as_parameter.py test. ........ r58037 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-07 16:14:40 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 2 lines Fix a wrong indentation for sublists. ........ r58043 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-07 22:10:49 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 2 lines #1095: ln -f doesn't work portably, fix in Makefile. ........ r58049 | skip.montanaro | 2007-09-08 02:34:17 +0200 (Sat, 08 Sep 2007) | 1 line be explicit about the actual location of the missing file ........
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.. function:: set_completion_display_matches_hook([function])
Set or remove the completion display function. If *function* is
specified, it will be used as the new completion display function;
if omitted or ``None``, any completion display function already
installed is removed. The completion display function is called as
``function(substitution, [matches], longest_match_length)`` once
each time matches need to be displayed.
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.. function:: add_history(line)
Append a line to the history buffer, as if it was the last line typed.
.. seealso::
Module :mod:`rlcompleter`
Completion of Python identifiers at the interactive prompt.
.. _readline-example:
Example
-------
The following example demonstrates how to use the :mod:`readline` module's
history reading and writing functions to automatically load and save a history
file named :file:`.pyhist` from the user's home directory. The code below would
normally be executed automatically during interactive sessions from the user's
:envvar:`PYTHONSTARTUP` file. ::
import os
import readline
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histfile = os.path.join(os.environ["HOME"], ".pyhist")
try:
readline.read_history_file(histfile)
except IOError:
pass
import atexit
atexit.register(readline.write_history_file, histfile)
del os, histfile
The following example extends the :class:`code.InteractiveConsole` class to
support history save/restore. ::
import code
import readline
import atexit
import os
class HistoryConsole(code.InteractiveConsole):
def __init__(self, locals=None, filename="<console>",
histfile=os.path.expanduser("~/.console-history")):
code.InteractiveConsole.__init__(self, locals, filename)
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self.init_history(histfile)
def init_history(self, histfile):
readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")
if hasattr(readline, "read_history_file"):
try:
readline.read_history_file(histfile)
except IOError:
pass
atexit.register(self.save_history, histfile)
def save_history(self, histfile):
readline.write_history_file(histfile)