use builtin repl completion after all, but written by us not the std lib module, which doesn't seem to work really, #280

jedi/_compatibility.py

@@ -173,3 +173,8 @@ def u(string):
     elif not isinstance(string, unicode):
         return unicode(str(string), 'UTF-8')
     return string
+
+try:
+    import builtins  # module name in python 3
+except ImportError:
+    import __builtin__ as builtins

jedi/api.py

@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ class Script(object):
         path = self._module.get_path_until_cursor()
         if re.search('^\.|\.\.$', path):
             return []
-        path, dot, like = self._get_completion_parts(path)
+        path, dot, like = self._get_completion_parts()
         completion_line = self._module.get_line(self.pos[0])[:self.pos[1]]
 
         try:
@@ -506,11 +506,12 @@ class Script(object):
                                kill_count=kill_count, direct_resolve=True)
         return i, cur_name_part
 
-    def _get_completion_parts(self, path):
+    def _get_completion_parts(self):
         """
         Returns the parts for the completion
         :return: tuple - (path, dot, like)
         """
+        path = self._module.get_path_until_cursor()
         match = re.match(r'^(.*?)(\.|)(\w?[\w\d]*)$', path, flags=re.S)
         return match.groups()
 

jedi/modules.py

@@ -95,13 +95,13 @@ class ModuleWithCursor(Module):
     def __init__(self, path, source, position):
         super(ModuleWithCursor, self).__init__(path, source)
         self.position = position
+        self.source = source
+        self._path_until_cursor = None
 
         # this two are only used, because there is no nonlocal in Python 2
         self._line_temp = None
         self._relevant_temp = None
 
-        self.source = source
-
     @property
     def parser(self):
         """ get the parser lazy """
@@ -121,9 +121,10 @@ class ModuleWithCursor(Module):
 
     def get_path_until_cursor(self):
         """ Get the path under the cursor. """
-        result = self._get_path_until_cursor()
+        if self._path_until_cursor is None:  # small caching
-        self._start_cursor_pos = self._start_cursor_pos_temp
+            self._path_until_cursor = self._get_path_until_cursor()
-        return result
+            self._start_cursor_pos = self._start_cursor_pos_temp
+        return self._path_until_cursor
 
     def _get_path_until_cursor(self, start_pos=None):
         def fetch_line():

jedi/utils.py

@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ Utilities for end-users.
 
 from __future__ import absolute_import
 import __main__
+import re
 
+from jedi._compatibility import builtins
 from jedi import Interpreter
 
 
@@ -61,20 +63,46 @@ def setup_readline():
                 a lot more sense, but probably due to backwards compatibility
                 this is still the way how it works.
 
-                The only important part is the ``Interpreter`` call, everything
+                The only important part is stuff in the ``state == 0`` flow,
-                else hsa been copied from the ``rlcompleter`` std. library
+                everything else has been copied from the ``rlcompleter`` std.
-                module.
+                library module.
                 """
                 if state == 0:
                     namespace = __main__.__dict__
-                    completions = Interpreter(text, [namespace]).completions()
+                    interpreter = Interpreter(text, [namespace])
-                    self.matches = [text + c.complete for c in completions]
+
+                    # The following part is a bit hackish, because it tries to
+                    # directly access some jedi internals. The goal is to just
+                    # use the "default" completion with ``getattr`` if
+                    # possible.
+                    path, dot, like = interpreter._get_completion_parts()
+                    if re.match('^[\w][\w\d.]*$', path):
+                        paths = path.split('.') if path else []
+                        namespaces = (namespace, builtins)
+                        for p in paths:
+                            old, namespaces = namespaces, []
+                            for n in old:
+                                try:
+                                    namespaces.append(getattr(n, p))
+                                except AttributeError:
+                                    pass
+
+                        self.matches = []
+                        for n in namespaces:
+                            for name in dir(n):
+                                if name.lower().startswith(like.lower()):
+                                    self.matches.append(path + dot + name)
+                    else:
+                        completions = interpreter.completions()
+                        self.matches = [text + c.complete for c in completions]
                 try:
                     return self.matches[state]
                 except IndexError:
                     return None
 
         readline.set_completer(JediRL().complete)
+        j = JediRL()
+        j.complete('r', 0)
 
         readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")
         # No delimiters, Jedi handles that.