optcomplete

hi Greg

late nite hacking, taking time off to work on personal ideas.
so following up on your suggestion back in september:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3142018&forum_id=6064

i have implemented the automatic bash completion as a separate module 
"optcomplete" which is compatible with optparse.  i have decided to clean it 
up and release it for trial.   you can find it here:

http://furius.ca/optcomplete/

(sorry i did not write a setup.py file yet).   it's a lot of fun to see 
completion appear automatically, in particular, see the sample output:

http://furius.ca/optcomplete/doc/sample-output.html

i think this could be made into something much fancier and featureful if many 
people adopted it.

note: i circumvented the fact that i cannot add an option-specific completer 
object directly from parser.add_option() by adding the completer data member 
dynamically on the option object and then checking later on for its 
existence.  with tighter integration between optparse and optcomplete, we 
could imagine replacing this:

  opt = parser.add_option('-p', '--script', action='store',
                          help="Option that takes python scripts args only.")
  opt.completer = optcomplete.RegexCompleter('.*\.py')

by this:

  opt = parser.add_option('-p', '--script', action='store',
  			completer = optcomplete.RegexCompleter('.*\.py'),
                          help="Option that takes python scripts args only.")


comments appreciated.
cheers,


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