Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

When using autocomplete in the REPL, from x import <tab> will show all non-underscore prefixed members. This is a dir-like behavior that is useful to inspect and understand what can be imported.

However, this mechanism isn't filtering on __all__ of the module and can yield a long list of non-useful candidates to autocomplete. Two examples shown below, pathlib and collections.abc.

The feature request is that when a user enters from x import <tab> only the candidates defined in __all__ are listed.

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

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Links to previous discussion of this feature:

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Linked PRs

• gh-149167: PyREPL autocomplete imports to only display public members #156146