From a7eae4016ed2f97b15000022ce0f39e0b271b37c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yury Selivanov <yselivanov@sprymix.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 01:23:05 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Issue #25660: Fix TAB key behaviour in REPL.

---
 Lib/rlcompleter.py | 4 +++-
 Misc/NEWS          | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/rlcompleter.py b/Lib/rlcompleter.py
index 378f5aa6473..26f59208bb4 100644
--- a/Lib/rlcompleter.py
+++ b/Lib/rlcompleter.py
@@ -75,7 +75,9 @@ class Completer:
 
         if not text.strip():
             if state == 0:
-                return '\t'
+                readline.insert_text('\t')
+                readline.redisplay()
+                return ''
             else:
                 return None
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 3a71354a043..691c5337176 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 - Issue #26171: Fix possible integer overflow and heap corruption in
   zipimporter.get_data().
 
+- Issue #25660: Fix TAB key behaviour in REPL with readline.
+
+
 Library
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