Closes #14411: remove outdated comment in rlcompleter docstring.

birkenfeld · birkenfeld · commit d86440750f7f · 2012-03-27T07:46:46.000+02:00
diff --git a/Lib/rlcompleter.py b/Lib/rlcompleter.py
@@ -1,35 +1,31 @@
-"""Word completion for GNU readline 2.0.
+"""Word completion for GNU readline.
 
-This requires the latest extension to the readline module. The completer
-completes keywords, built-ins and globals in a selectable namespace (which
-defaults to __main__); when completing NAME.NAME..., it evaluates (!) the
-expression up to the last dot and completes its attributes.
+The completer completes keywords, built-ins and globals in a selectable
+namespace (which defaults to __main__); when completing NAME.NAME..., it
+evaluates (!) the expression up to the last dot and completes its attributes.
 
-It's very cool to do "import sys" type "sys.", hit the
-completion key (twice), and see the list of names defined by the
-sys module!
+It's very cool to do "import sys" type "sys.", hit the completion key (twice),
+and see the list of names defined by the sys module!
 
 Tip: to use the tab key as the completion key, call
 
     readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")
 
 Notes:
 
-- Exceptions raised by the completer function are *ignored* (and
-generally cause the completion to fail).  This is a feature -- since
-readline sets the tty device in raw (or cbreak) mode, printing a
-traceback wouldn't work well without some complicated hoopla to save,
-reset and restore the tty state.
+- Exceptions raised by the completer function are *ignored* (and generally cause
+  the completion to fail).  This is a feature -- since readline sets the tty
+  device in raw (or cbreak) mode, printing a traceback wouldn't work well
+  without some complicated hoopla to save, reset and restore the tty state.
 
-- The evaluation of the NAME.NAME... form may cause arbitrary
-application defined code to be executed if an object with a
-__getattr__ hook is found.  Since it is the responsibility of the
-application (or the user) to enable this feature, I consider this an
-acceptable risk.  More complicated expressions (e.g. function calls or
-indexing operations) are *not* evaluated.
+- The evaluation of the NAME.NAME... form may cause arbitrary application
+  defined code to be executed if an object with a __getattr__ hook is found.
+  Since it is the responsibility of the application (or the user) to enable this
+  feature, I consider this an acceptable risk.  More complicated expressions
+  (e.g. function calls or indexing operations) are *not* evaluated.
 
 - When the original stdin is not a tty device, GNU readline is never
-used, and this module (and the readline module) are silently inactive.
+  used, and this module (and the readline module) are silently inactive.
 
 """
 
