I cannot get past the first step in the Autocompletion module in Build your own Shell. It seems there is a bug in the test script as can be seen below:
For some reason it seems that the “Expected” string and the test input does not match (input’s missing the letter “b”)
Hey @mikkel-larsen, it doesn’t appear to be a bug on our end. You can try running the program locally to verify that the letter b is indeed being swallowed by readline:
The issue seems to stem from this line: readline.parse_and_bind("bind ^I rl_complete"). Removing it allows your code to pass all tests.
That’s strange. It works for me when I try locally.
I can’t, however, use tab-completion if I remove readline.parse_and_bind("bind ^I rl_complete"). Though I can see that the tests run successfully on your end without that line.
But that means that I cannot use tab-completion on my machine for the rest of the assignments if I want to complete this 
That’s definitely peculiar. By the way, how did you come across the workaround "bind ^I rl_complete"? Curious why Control-I would map to Tab. 
To help confirm whether you’re using GNU Readline or libedit under the hood, could you share the result of running print(readline.__doc__)?
Definitely!
And I agree, I was sceptical of the command when I found it (on Reddit), but as it worked I admit I did not think further of it.
Looks like your readline is using libedit instead of GNU Readline.
The issue can be resolved by installing GNU Readline:
brew install readline
Was already installed. Do I need to do something to make it the default instead of libedit?
My Python is installed via Anaconda, and I just confirmed that readline is installed through conda as well:
Not sure if pip install would work in this case.
@mikkel-larsen You might be able to move that workaround to ~/.editrc instead of including it in your code:
the .editrc config file did the trick for me!
Thank you for the help.
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