--- rlcompleter.rst 2008-01-24 19:32:46.000000000 +0100 +++ rlcompleter_patched.rst 2008-04-18 16:48:30.000000000 +0200 @@ -61,5 +61,6 @@ If called for a dotted name, it will try to evaluate anything without obvious side-effects (functions will not be evaluated, but it can generate calls to :meth:`__getattr__`) up to the last part, and find matches for the rest via the - :func:`dir` function. + :func:`dir` function. Any exception raised during the evaluation of the + expression is caught, silenced and :const:'None' is returned.