IPython

tab completion does not escape ()

Bug #258721 reported by Peter Bienstman
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
IPython
Fix Committed
Low
Ville M. Vainio

Bug Description

I have a file coming from a Windows user called aaaa(1).txt, tab completion under linux expands this to

aaaa(1).txt

as opposed to

aaaa\(1\).txt

as is done by bash.

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Ville M. Vainio (villemvainio) wrote :

If this is changed, it should be limited to Linux.

Changed in ipython:
assignee: nobody → villemvainio
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Peter Bienstman (peter-bienstman) wrote :

BTW, another character where this problem occurs is the apostrophe.

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Ville M. Vainio (villemvainio) wrote :

I fixed it for () characters. I'll add " ' after 0.9, it's really too late to play with these too much at this point in release cycle.

Brian Granger (ellisonbg)
Changed in ipython:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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Batz (batman900+launchpad) wrote :

Small patch for the other special bash characters.

diff --git a/IPython/core/completer.py b/IPython/core/completer.py
index b4b83e1..90c12af 100644
--- a/IPython/core/completer.py
+++ b/IPython/core/completer.py
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ __all__ = ['Completer','IPCompleter']
 if sys.platform == 'win32':
     PROTECTABLES = ' '
 else:
- PROTECTABLES = ' ()'
+ PROTECTABLES = ' ()[]{}?=\\|;:\'#*"^&'

 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Main functions and classes

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Fernando Perez (fdo.perez) wrote :

Thanks a lot for the patch, bug closed on github:

http://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/issue/36
http://github.com/ipython/ipython/commit/ec1f4d67f26e2155ec082c858429f1ad0fdf6524

Changed in ipython:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Fernando Perez (fdo.perez) wrote :

Note that no further updates will be posted here, if anything else needs further work on this bug, please see the new bug tracker on github using the link above.

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