[issue5992] spurious space after opening parenthesis when auto-completing

Changes by Antoine Pitrou : -- resolution: -> duplicate status: open -> closed superseder: -> readline update ___ Python tracker ___

[issue5992] spurious space after opening parenthesis when auto-completing

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: This is with readline and rlcompleter enabled. However, it actually does this with the installed system Python too, so I fear some system-specific problem (perhaps a buggy readline library). -- ___ Python tracker

[issue5992] spurious space after opening parenthesis when auto-completing

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: What system are you using? On Windows 3.0.1, standard interpreter window, 'h' 'e' '' prints 'h' 'e' ' ' ' ' (making, with '>>> ', 8 chars. Which is to say, there is no tab completion. On IDLE, same brings up box and completes to 'help' -- nosy: +tjr

[issue5992] spurious space after opening parenthesis when auto-completing

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[issue5992] spurious space after opening parenthesis when auto-completing

New submission from Antoine Pitrou : Recent trunk/py3k revisions add a spurious space character after the opening parenthesis when doing completion at the interpreter prompt. For example if you type "he" and then press the Tab key, it will display "help( " instead of "help(". -- messages