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#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
Autocompletion example that shows meta-information alongside the completions.
"""
from prompt_toolkit.completion import WordCompleter
from prompt_toolkit.shortcuts import CompleteStyle, prompt

animal_completer = WordCompleter(
    [
        "alligator",
        "ant",
        "ape",
        "bat",
        "bear",
        "beaver",
        "bee",
        "bison",
        "butterfly",
        "cat",
        "chicken",
        "crocodile",
        "dinosaur",
        "dog",
        "dolphin",
        "dove",
        "duck",
        "eagle",
        "elephant",
    ],
    meta_dict={
        "alligator": "An alligator is a crocodilian in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae.",
        "ant": "Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae",
        "ape": "Apes (Hominoidea) are a branch of Old World tailless anthropoid catarrhine primates ",
        "bat": "Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera",
    },
    ignore_case=True,
)


def main():
    text = prompt(
        "Give some animals: ",
        completer=animal_completer,
        complete_style=CompleteStyle.MULTI_COLUMN,
    )
    print("You said: %s" % text)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()