From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 19:42:14 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: In completer(), return None instead of raising an IndexError when
X-Git-Tag: v1.5.2a1~475
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d458faadc303cef6fd07b9e22bfa9e08456426cf;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

In completer(), return None instead of raising an IndexError when
there are no more completions left.  (This for compatibility with
Donald Beaudry's code.)
---

diff --git a/Lib/rlcompleter.py b/Lib/rlcompleter.py
index e0ae72c9aca3..92633abbc2fb 100644
--- a/Lib/rlcompleter.py
+++ b/Lib/rlcompleter.py
@@ -58,7 +58,10 @@ class Completer:
                 self.matches = self.attr_matches(text)
             else:
                 self.matches = self.global_matches(text)
-        return self.matches[state]
+        try:
+            return self.matches[state]
+        except IndexError:
+            return None
 
     def global_matches(self, text):
         """Compute matches when text is a simple name.