[Twisted-web] tab completion in manhole

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:41:07 +0100, Dickon Reed <dickon.reed+twisted at gmail.com> wrote:
>Is there any way to to get tab completion of Python expressions (i.e. like
>what Ipython does) in twisted manhole sessions?
>
>Specifically, I'm using a variant of twisted.conch.stdio, which I only
>discovered today but seems to be a much more sound approach than the nasty
>concoction of reactor.crash and restarting the reactor and Ipython which
>I've tried before.

There's no support in manhole for tab completion.  This would be a great
feature.  If someone would like to try to implement it, I'd be happy to
offer guidance.

Jean-Paul