gh-92032: Add soft keywords to rlcompleter (#92029)

Let the interpreter autocomplete soft-keywords, ATM the PEP-634 'match' / 'case' / '_' (wildcard pattern). Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra <jelle.zijlstra@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood@Gmail.com>
python · May 2, 2022 · 4bed9c4 · 4bed9c4
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diff --git a/Lib/rlcompleter.py b/Lib/rlcompleter.py
@@ -117,14 +117,14 @@ def global_matches(self, text):
         matches = []
         seen = {"__builtins__"}
         n = len(text)
-        for word in keyword.kwlist:
+        for word in keyword.kwlist + keyword.softkwlist:
             if word[:n] == text:
                 seen.add(word)
                 if word in {'finally', 'try'}:
                     word = word + ':'
                 elif word not in {'False', 'None', 'True',
                                   'break', 'continue', 'pass',
-                                  'else'}:
+                                  'else', '_'}:
                     word = word + ' '
                 matches.append(word)
         for nspace in [self.namespace, builtins.__dict__]:

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_rlcompleter.py b/Lib/test/test_rlcompleter.py
@@ -138,6 +138,9 @@ def test_complete(self):
         self.assertEqual(completer.complete('el', 0), 'elif ')
         self.assertEqual(completer.complete('el', 1), 'else')
         self.assertEqual(completer.complete('tr', 0), 'try:')
+        self.assertEqual(completer.complete('_', 0), '_')
+        self.assertEqual(completer.complete('match', 0), 'match ')
+        self.assertEqual(completer.complete('case', 0), 'case ')
 
     def test_duplicate_globals(self):
         namespace = {

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2022-04-28-20-19-49.gh-issue-92032.ef-UfM.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2022-04-28-20-19-49.gh-issue-92032.ef-UfM.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+The interpreter can now autocomplete soft keywords, as of now
+``match``, ``case``, and ``_`` (wildcard pattern) from :pep:`634`.