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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2008-05-11 21:03:42 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2008-05-11 21:03:42 (GMT)
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- #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in rlcompleter's
``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and ignored.
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@@ -61,5 +61,6 @@ Completer objects have the following method:
If called for a dotted name, it will try to evaluate anything without obvious
side-effects (functions will not be evaluated, but it can generate calls to
:meth:`__getattr__`) up to the last part, and find matches for the rest via the
- :func:`dir` function.
+ :func:`dir` function. Any exception raised during the evaluation of the
+ expression is caught, silenced and :const:`None` is returned.