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Asked: 2026-06-04T19:31:04+00:00

IPython is not able to tab-complete the names of modules in the current directory

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IPython is not able to tab-complete the names of modules in the current directory when importing.

If I have a file called Blah.py in the current directory I would like to type (at an ipython prompt)
import Bl
and have it complete to “import Blah”. It seems like nothing happens when I press tab though. Tab completion in other contexts seems to work fine.

I am using EPD 7.2-2 64bit on Mac OSX version 10.5.8. It comes with IPython version 0.12.

This kind of tab completion used to work for me with IPython version 0.10.2 on a Mac (though it wasn’t part of EPD). The only other difference I notice in this EPD version is that tab completion also closes the quotes every time you tab-complete a directory name within a string.

Any ideas are appreciated.

Thanks!

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  1. Editorial Team

    The problem is in sys.path. The first entry was an empty string ''. I guess the completer doesn’t understand that this means to look in the current directory (maybe it understood in previous versions?). If you add './' to the path then everything works fine.

    At the beginning my ipython_config.py file I just added

    import sys
sys.path.insert(0, './')

    That solves the problem permanently.

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