readline and TAB-completion?

Wed Nov 25 04:44:05 EST 2015

Ulli Horlacher wrote:
> I need an input function with GNU readline support. So far I have:
>> import readline
> readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")
>> file = raw_input('File to send: ')
>>> Cursor keys are working, but TAB-completion works only in the current
> directory. Example:
>>> File to send: [TAB][TAB]
> argv.py error.py md5b64.py x.py

[...]
> Is there a way to make TAB-completion work for other directories, too?

Remove "/" from the set of delimiters:
readline.set_completer_delims(
 "".join(c for c in readline.get_completer_delims() if c != "/"))
> murksigkeiten

I wonder what's in there ;)