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# Module: `core.completerlib`

Implementations for various useful completers.

These are all loaded by default by IPython.

## 10 Functions

`IPython.core.completerlib.` `module_list`(path)

  Return the list containing the names of the modules available in the given folder.

`IPython.core.completerlib.` `get_root_modules`()

  Returns a list containing the names of all the modules available in the folders of the pythonpath.

  ip.db[‘rootmodules_cache’] maps sys.path entries to list of modules.

`IPython.core.completerlib.` `is_importable`(module, attr, only_modules)

`IPython.core.completerlib.` `try_import`(mod, only_modules=False)

`IPython.core.completerlib.` `quick_completer`(cmd, completions)

  Easily create a trivial completer for a command.

  Takes either a list of completions, or all completions in string (that will be split on whitespace).

  Example:

      [d:\ipython]|1> import ipy_completers
      [d:\ipython]|2> ipy_completers.quick_completer('foo', ['bar','baz'])
      [d:\ipython]|3> foo b<TAB>
      bar baz
      [d:\ipython]|3> foo ba

`IPython.core.completerlib.` `module_completion`(line)

  Returns a list containing the completion possibilities for an import line.

  The line looks like this : ‘import xml.d’ ‘from xml.dom import’

`IPython.core.completerlib.` `module_completer`(self, event)

  Give completions after user has typed ‘import ...’ or ‘from ...’

`IPython.core.completerlib.` `magic_run_completer`(self, event)

  Complete files that end in .py or .ipy or .ipynb for the %run command.

`IPython.core.completerlib.` `cd_completer`(self, event)

  Completer function for cd, which only returns directories.

`IPython.core.completerlib.` `reset_completer`(self, event)

  A completer for %reset magic

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