{"id":901,"date":"2013-01-11T17:04:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T17:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk:443\/?p=901"},"modified":"2013-01-11T17:04:13","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T17:04:13","slug":"python-tab-completion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk\/2013\/01\/11\/python-tab-completion\/","title":{"rendered":"python tab completion"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I’ve slowly been working my way through Security Tubes Python Scripting Expert (SPSE) course. But, I’ve not liked the way the python interpreter doesn’t have tab completion. After a little bit of digging I found the following so wanted to make sure I made a note of it and shared it with others.<\/p>\n

Create a file in your home directory called .pyrc<\/em> and insert the following lines into it:<\/p>\n

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import<\/span> rlcompleter<\/span>,<\/span> readline<\/span>
\nreadline<\/span>.parse_and_bind<\/span>(<\/span>"tab: complete"<\/span>)<\/span><\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

Now you need to ensure that this file is pulled into python each time it run, add the following to your .bashrc<\/em> file:<\/p>\n

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export PYTHONSTARTUP="${HOME}\/.pyrc"<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

Activate the changes in your current terminal and you’re sorted.<\/p>\n

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source ${HOME}\/.bashrc<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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