pythonrc with autocompletion! :)

.pythonrc

import atexit
import os
import sys
try:
    import readline
except ImportError:
    print "Module readline not available."
else:
    import rlcompleter
    readline.parse_and_bind('tab:complete')
    print(".pythonrc :: AutoCompletion Loaded")

# History
historyPath = os.path.expanduser("~/.pyhistory")


def save_history(historyPath=historyPath):
    import readline
    readline.write_history_file(historyPath)
    print(".pythonrc :: history saved to " + historyPath)

if os.path.exists(historyPath):
    readline.read_history_file(historyPath)

atexit.register(save_history)

# anything not deleted (sys and os) will remain in the interpreter session
del atexit, readline, rlcompleter, save_history, historyPath

Hi Gabriel, It is working with python3 in my system. Only with the python3.8 it is not working. Will try to fix it. Thanks a lot for all your help. Bhavin Moriya <https://sites.google.com/site/bhavinmoriya/> Assistant Professor The Federal University of Viçosa - Brazil. Departamento de Matemática <http://www.dma.ufv.br/> Av. P.H. Rolfs, s/n 36570-000 – Viçosa. Minas Gerais Brasil. My Blog https://livelifemaverick.blogspot.com/ "Only the gentle are ever really strong." - James Dean

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On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 4:01 PM Gabriel Le Breton ***@***.***> wrote: ***@***.**** commented on this gist. ------------------------------ Well, there's probably something wrong with your system, I just tried on a fresh ubuntu:18.04 docker image on https://labs.play-with-docker.com/ (a bit different from an actual clean os, but still) docker pull ubuntu:18.04 docker run --rm -it ubuntu:18.04 bash apt-get update && apt-get install -y python3 vim touch ~/.pythonrc vim ~/.pythonrc# paste content of file from blog post and write file vim ~/.bashrc# paste 'export PYTHONSTARTUP=~/.pythonrc' and write filesource ~/.bashrc python3 Python 3.6.9 (default, Nov 7 2019, 10:44:02) [GCC 8.3.0] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. .pythonrc :: AutoCompletion Loaded .pythonrc :: history file: /root/.pyhistory>>> print('example') example>>> .pythonrc :: history saved to /root/.pyhistory cat /root/.pyhistory print('example') — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <https://gist.github.com/8584525#gistcomment-3233591>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ADX5EV5ZDGY2VX637NCD5O3RKDUBFANCNFSM4LVMD3TA> .