Text Auto-fill

[ChuckDubya]

It's common in web browsers to have a text auto-fill function for
personal information or passwords or whatnot. The flavor that I'm
referring to is the kind that pops up as you're typing the word, not
the kind that fills text fields before typing has started.

Well I want to know how to do that in Python. I'm looking to edit IDLE
so that it doesn't take me forever to code four lines.

Eventually, I want to create a Visual Basic-type environment for
myself. I'm a moron, and I need all the coding help I can get.

 

[Jorgen Grahn]

It's common in web browsers to have a text auto-fill function for
personal information or passwords or whatnot. The flavor that I'm
referring to is the kind that pops up as you're typing the word, not
the kind that fills text fields before typing has started.

Well I want to know how to do that in Python. I'm looking to edit IDLE
so that it doesn't take me forever to code four lines.

I'm very fond of the Emacs feature called 'dabbrev-expand', which lets you
type the start of a word and cycle through all words in all open files that
starts with those letters.

Not an answer to your question, but if you're going to hack on completion
algorithms, you might as well hack on a really great one!

Eventually, I want to create a Visual Basic-type environment for
myself. I'm a moron, and I need all the coding help I can get.

I suspected as much ;-)

/Jorgen