Autocomplete variable names in Spyder

[BjornFJohansson]

I wonder if autocomplete of the variable name is expected at the ipdb prompt. when I press tab I just get tabs and no auto completion or is there another key combo for this?

[gotcha]

Have you checked https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15122375/get-ipython-tab-completion-for-ipdb ?

[BjornFJohansson]

I did and I installed the libncurses5-dev but I saw no difference. I have

ipdb                      0.10.3                   py36_0    conda-forge
ipython                   6.2.1            py36h88c514a_1    defaults
readline                  7.0                  hac23ff0_3    defaults

[gotcha]

Does it work outside spyder ?

[BjornFJohansson]

@gotcha

it does!

[BjornFJohansson]

@gotcha could it be the keybinding in Spyder ? How could I check that?

[BjornFJohansson]

maybe this is a spyder problem https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/issues/288