""" Utilities for end-users. """ from __future__ import absolute_import import __main__ from jedi import Interpreter def setup_readline(): """ Install Jedi completer to :mod:`readline`. This function setups :mod:`readline` to use Jedi in Python interactive shell. If you want to use a custom ``PYTHONSTARTUP`` file (typically ``$HOME/.pythonrc.py``), you can add this piece of code:: try: from jedi.utils import setup_readline setup_readline() except ImportError: # Fallback to the stdlib readline completer if it is installed. # Taken from http://docs.python.org/2/library/rlcompleter.html print("Jedi is not installed, falling back to readline") try: import readline import rlcompleter readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete") except ImportError: print("Readline is not installed either. No tab completion is enabled.") This will fallback to the readline completer if Jedi is not installed. The readline completer will only complete names in the global namespace, so for example, >>> ran will complete to ``range`` with both Jedi and readline, but >>> range(10).cou will show complete to ``range(10).count`` only with Jedi. You'll also need to add ``export PYTHONSTARTUP=$HOME/.pythonrc.py`` to your shell profile (usually ``.bash_profile`` or ``.profile`` if you use bash). """ try: import readline except ImportError: print("Module readline not available.") else: class JediRL(): def complete(self, text, state): """ This complete stuff is pretty weird, a generator would make 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 else hsa been copied from the ``rlcompleter`` std. library module. """ if state == 0: namespace = __main__.__dict__ completions = Interpreter(text, [namespace]).completions() self.matches = [text + c.complete for c in completions] try: return self.matches[state] except IndexError: return None readline.set_completer(JediRL().complete) readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete") # No delimiters, Jedi handles that. readline.set_completer_delims('')