gh-102130: Support tab completion in cmd for Libedit.

Doc/library/cmd.rst

@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ interface.
    key; it defaults to :kbd:`Tab`. If *completekey* is not :const:`None` and
    :mod:`readline` is available, command completion is done automatically.
 
+   The string ``'tab'`` is treated specially: If the :mod:`readline` module
+   detects ``libedit``, it will be handled as ``'^I'`` for ``libedit``.
+
    The optional arguments *stdin* and *stdout* specify the  input and output file
    objects that the Cmd instance or subclass  instance will use for input and
    output. If not specified, they will default to :data:`sys.stdin` and

Lib/cmd.py

@@ -108,7 +108,13 @@ def cmdloop(self, intro=None):
                 import readline
                 self.old_completer = readline.get_completer()
                 readline.set_completer(self.complete)
-                readline.parse_and_bind(self.completekey+": complete")
+                if 'libedit' in getattr(readline, '__doc__', ''):
+                    if self.completekey == 'tab':
+                        self.completekey = r'"\t"'
+                    readline.parse_and_bind("bind "+self.completekey+" rl_complete")
+                else:
+                    readline.parse_and_bind(self.completekey+": complete")
+
             except ImportError:
                 pass
         try:

Lib/test/test_cmd.py

@@ -9,7 +9,10 @@
 import doctest
 import unittest
 import io
+import textwrap
 from test import support
+from test.support.import_helper import import_module
+from test.support.pty_helper import run_pty
 
 class samplecmdclass(cmd.Cmd):
     """
@@ -259,6 +262,33 @@ class CmdPrintExceptionClass(cmd.Cmd):
     def default(self, line):
         print(sys.exc_info()[:2])
 
+
+@support.requires_subprocess()
+class CmdTestReadline(unittest.TestCase):
+    def setUpClass():
+        # Ensure that the readline module is loaded
+        # If this fails, the test is skipped because SkipTest will be raised
+        readline = import_module('readline')
+
+    def test_basic_completion(self):
+        script = textwrap.dedent("""
+            import cmd
+            class simplecmd(cmd.Cmd):
+                def do_tab_completion_test(self, args):
+                    print('tab completion success')
+                    return True
+
+            simplecmd().cmdloop()
+        """)
+
+        # 't' and complete 'ab_completion_test' to 'tab_completion_test'
+        input = b"t\t\n"
+
+        output = run_pty(script, input)
+
+        self.assertIn(b'tab_completion_test', output)
+        self.assertIn(b'tab completion success', output)
+
 def load_tests(loader, tests, pattern):
     tests.addTest(doctest.DocTestSuite())
     return tests

Misc/ACKS

@@ -788,6 +788,7 @@ Thomas Holmes
 Craig Holmquist
 Philip Homburg
 Naofumi Honda
+Constantin Hong
 Weipeng Hong
 Jeffrey Honig
 Rob Hooft

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-08-07-21-11-24.gh-issue-102130._UyI5i.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Support tab completion in :mod:`cmd` for Libedit.