Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

Currently there are a couple of issues with pdb's completion:

1. It does not know about built-in functions like repl. So pri\t won't complete to print.
2. Disabling of completion in multi-line mode is a bit too strong - the user should be able to complete on expressions when they need. Also it does not work with libedit.
3. If you are typing a statement/expression, rather than using a command like p, pdb will lose the ability to complete expressions.

We have rlcompleter and we should utilize that to make pdb's completion better - the code is already there and it has fixed a couple of corner issues.

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere

Links to previous discussion of this feature:

No response

Linked PRs

• gh-112948: Make pdb completion similar to repl completion #112950