tab completion does not escape ()

[Peter Bienstman]

I have a file coming from a Windows user called aaaa(1).txt, tab completion under linux expands this to

aaaa(1).txt

as opposed to

aaaa\(1\).txt

as is done by bash.

[Ville M. Vainio (villemvainio)]

If this is changed, it should be limited to Linux.

[Peter Bienstman (peter-bienstman)]

BTW, another character where this problem occurs is the apostrophe.

[Ville M. Vainio (villemvainio)]

I fixed it for () characters. I'll add " ' after 0.9, it's really too late to play with these too much at this point in release cycle.

[Batz (batman900+launchpad)]

Small patch for the other special bash characters.

diff --git a/IPython/core/completer.py b/IPython/core/completer.py
index b4b83e1..90c12af 100644
--- a/IPython/core/completer.py
+++ b/IPython/core/completer.py
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ __all__ = ['Completer','IPCompleter']
 if sys.platform == 'win32':
     PROTECTABLES = ' '
 else:
- PROTECTABLES = ' ()'
+ PROTECTABLES = ' ()[]{}?=\\|;:\'#*"^&'

 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Main functions and classes

[Fernando Perez (fdo.perez)]

Thanks a lot for the patch, bug closed on github:

http://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/issue/36
http://github.com/ipython/ipython/commit/ec1f4d67f26e2155ec082c858429f1ad0fdf6524

[Fernando Perez (fdo.perez)]

Note that no further updates will be posted here, if anything else needs further work on this bug, please see the new bug tracker on github using the link above.