Issue #23441: rcompleter now prints a tab character instead of displaying

possible completions for an empty word.

Initial patch by Martin Sekera.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_rlcompleter.py b/Lib/test/test_rlcompleter.py
index 11a7bd2..2da7fce 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_rlcompleter.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_rlcompleter.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-from test import support
 import unittest
 import builtins
 import rlcompleter
@@ -65,9 +64,14 @@ class TestRlcompleter(unittest.TestCase):
                          ['egg.{}('.format(x) for x in dir(str)
                           if x.startswith('s')])
 
-def test_main():
-    support.run_unittest(TestRlcompleter)
+    def test_complete(self):
+        completer = rlcompleter.Completer()
+        self.assertEqual(completer.complete('', 0), '\t')
+        self.assertEqual(completer.complete('a', 0), 'and')
+        self.assertEqual(completer.complete('a', 1), 'as')
+        self.assertEqual(completer.complete('as', 2), 'assert')
+        self.assertEqual(completer.complete('an', 0), 'and')
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    test_main()
+    unittest.main()