bug#28580: python.el: native completion setup failed

["Андрей Парамонов" <cmr.pent@gmail.com>]

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Hi Noam,

and thank you for a quick reply!

2017-09-24 19:14 GMT+03:00 Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>:

> > It is expected that Python completion works out-of-the-box, without
> > warnings.
>
> Seems to be impossible, unfortunately.  Does this commentary from
> python.el help?
>
> ;; If your Python installation lacks readline (like CPython for
> ;; Windows), installing pyreadline (URL
> ;; `http://ipython.org/pyreadline.html') should suffice.  To
> ;; troubleshoot why you are not getting any completions, you can try the
> ;; following in your Python shell:


> ;; >>> import readline, rlcompleter
>
> ;; If you see an error, then you need to either install pyreadline or
> ;; setup custom code that avoids that dependency.
>

It didn't help, unfortunately: I was indeed missing pyreadline, but
installing it from conda repo made no difference :-(
Neither did using "-i -u" as interactive Python arg.

I vaguely remember this working with older Pythons -- what could probably
change?

Best wishes,
Andrey Paramonov

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