Bug #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more gracefully.

(backport from r61275)
2008-03-06 07:46:26 +00:00 · 2008-03-06 07:46:26 +00:00 · ab61dce0e1
parent 0e30555748
commit ab61dce0e1
2 changed files with 3 additions and 1 deletions
--- 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)
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ Core and builtins
 Library
 -------

+- Bug #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more gracefully.
+
 - Bug #1725737: In distutil's sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
  root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.