Subject: bug#68559: [PATCH] Improve Python shell completion

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2024 11:52:19 +0200

> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2024 22:15:20 +0900
> From: kobarity <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>,
> 	[email-masked]
> 
> kobarity wrote:
> > Liu Hui wrote:
> > > Thanks for pointing it out. The attached patch should now restore
> > > previous basic completion behavior in comments.
> > 
> > Thanks, I confirmed that basic completion (without keyword argument
> > completion) can be performed within comments.
> 
> One additional comment regarding ERT.  pyenv installs an ipython shim
> to the shims directory, if there is at least one virtualenv providing
> ipython.  It can be found by `executable-find'.  However, it is not
> usable unless the virtualenv is activated.  As a result, the
> `python-shell-completion-at-point-ipython' ERT would fail unless a
> virtualenv which provides ipython is activated.
> 
> This may be something pyenv users should take care of, but it is more
> convenient for pyenv users like me to make the following changes.

Do we have a consensus about this issue?  Should I install the
original patch, or are you still discussing it, and an updated patch
will be posted soon?

Thanks.