PyREPL: auto-complete module attributes in import statements

[loic-simon]

Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

Support for auto-completion of import statements can be separated between

• Modules suggestions (Readline completion of module names in import statements #69605): done by @tomasr8 🎉
• Attributes suggestions: more complex, since we cannot reliably know which attributes to suggest if their module is not imported yet.

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As discussed on Discourse, automatically importing modules when pressing TAB would be too intrusive and unsafe, considering import-time side effects.

A solution that seems acceptable to most people, though, is to prompt the user to press TAB again to import the module and see its contents.

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

I have already discussed this feature proposal on Discourse

Links to previous discussion of this feature:

https://discuss.python.org/t/looking-for-feedback-on-adding-import-autocomplete-to-pyrepl/82281

Linked PRs

• gh-140870: PyREPL auto-complete module attributes in import statements  #140871
• gh-140870: Full coverage for _pyrepl._module_completer #143244
• [3.14] gh-140870: Full coverage for _pyrepl._module_completer (GH-143244) #143260