[Python] Autocompletion for my python module using click

I created a python module I install. It uses a Bash CLI commands such as my-module init or my-module delete.

The structure is like:

my-module/
|--- setup.py
|--- my_module
| |--- __main__.py
| |--- delete.py
| |--- init.py


setup.py

setuptools.setup(
name="my-module",
entry_points={
"console_scripts": [
"my-module = my_module.__main__:cli"
]
},


__main__.py

@click.group(chain=True)
def cli():
pass


cli.add_command(init_cmd)
cli.add_command(delete_cmd)


init.py

@click.command("init")
@click.option("-p", "--path",
type=str,
help="Path to the project workspace."
)
def init_project_cmd(path):
pass


It works correcly, however, the autocompletion does not work. It does work for my-module but not for the second part.

Following this I edited .bashrc adding the line:

eval "$(_ML_PIPELINE_COMPLETE=bash_source /path/to/my-module/my_module/__main__.py)"

However, (after running chmod to __main__.py because I had a permission error) I have the error messages saying

import-im6.q16: unable to open X server `' @ error/import.c/ImportImageCommand/359.
from: can't read /var/mail/my-module.delete
from: can't read /var/mail/my-module.init
/path/to/my-module/my_module/__main__.py: line 9: syntax error near unexpected token `('
/path/to/my-module/my_module/__main__.py: line 9: `from some_module import ('


My quesitons:

1. Am I on the good track? What am I missing then? The errors looks very weird and it feels like the autocompletion should be easy.
2. If so, now I have to (at least), to add a line to bashrc, with the path to the main file (that I don't really know because each user will have their own path to python packages). How can I automate this so that it is done with the pip install command?

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