Bug #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more gracefully.
(backport from r61275)
diff --git a/Lib/rlcompleter.py b/Lib/rlcompleter.py
index dab0cb9..a2d5fe6 100644
--- a/Lib/rlcompleter.py
+++ b/Lib/rlcompleter.py
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
import re
m = re.match(r"(\w+(\.\w+)*)\.(\w*)", text)
if not m:
- return
+ return []
expr, attr = m.group(1, 3)
object = eval(expr, self.namespace)
words = dir(object)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 6af11b1..43bc504 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
Library
-------
+- Bug #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more gracefully.
+
- Bug #1725737: In distutil's sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.