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register-python-argcomplete - argcomplete utility script

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Description

REGISTER-PYTHON-ARGCOMPLETE

NAME

register-python-argcomplete - register-python-argcomplete - argcomplete utility script

DESCRIPTION

usage: register-python-argcomplete [-h] [--no-defaults]
[--complete-arguments ...] [-s {bash,tcsh}]

executable

Register a Python executable for use with the argcomplete module.

To perform the registration, source the output of this script in your bash shell (quote the output to avoid interpolation).

Example:

$ eval "$(register-python-argcomplete my-favorite-script.py)"

For Tcsh

$ eval ‘register-python-argcomplete --shell tcsh my-favorite-script.py‘

positional arguments:

executable

executable to completed (when invoked by exactly this name)

optional arguments:

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

--no-defaults

When no matches are generated, do not fallback to readline’s default completion

--complete-arguments ...

arguments to call complete with; use of this option discards default options

-s {bash,tcsh}, --shell {bash,tcsh}

output code for the specified shell

AUTHORS

argcomplete module was written by Andrey Kislyuk

SEE ALSO

Full documentation for argccomplete module is stored at https://argcomplete.readthedocs.org/en/latest/