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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()