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Enabling tab completion in default python interpreter
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Add this to your PYTHONSTARTUP (~/.pythonrc.py) file:

try:
    import readline
except ImportError:
    print "Module readline not available."
else:
    import rlcompleter
    readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")

then:

export PYTHONSTARTUP=~/.pythonrc.py
python

or add PYTHONSTARTUP entry to your shell profile

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