On 21 Aug 2006 22:56:13 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What exactly are you trying to accomplish? If you want to index > function/class names, variables, etc then you should take a look at > "exuberant ctags" http://ctags.sourceforge.net53 --although it started > off as a C indexer, it has excellent Python support, it's free, and as > a bonus its indices are well supported from inside major editors (vim, > emacs, etc) so you can easily follow code flow, find function/class > definitions, etc. Sorry for not being clear enough. I want the following: a) have my editor go to the point where a function/whatever is defined b) see all places where a function/whatever is used. I've tried exuberant ctags and I do like it a lot. a) is done wonderfully (within emacs, the editor I use, but also in other editros, from what I've read). However, b) does not work exactly as I'd like: 1. With Emacs and tags: using "tags-search" I can visit, one by one, all places where a function is called, but I'd like to see where it is called before visting that file and know, before visiting each file in turn, whether I'll visit 1 or 20 files (or, to put it in another way, I'd like to see like a poor-mans static callgraph). 2. From what I understand, there is a deeper difference than just how results are shown: the tags file contains the places where, say, a function is defined, but finding where it is used requires running grep on every file looking for the tag. (I believe that is what "tags-search" does in emacs). In contrast, ID utils does not do any grep, but directly goes to the ID file, where all that is already pre-stored, which also means that it will be a lot faster than grepping for the tags. A tool similar to IDutils is Global http://www.gnu.no/software/global/, but it also does not incorporate Python support. (Though defining other parsers might be simple; I haven't looked at it closely). I think the wish "do not use grep, just look at the index file, and immediately display all matches" is reasonable and probably other Python coders had thought about it before. But I am wondering if I am missing something obvious, as most people seem to be very happy with exuberant ctags. Thanks, R. On 21 Aug 2006 22:56:13 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > Has anybody tried to use ID Utils > > (http://www.gnu.org/software/idutils/4652) with Python? > > What exactly are you trying to accomplish? If you want to index > function/class names, variables, etc then you should take a look at > "exuberant ctags" http://ctags.sourceforge.net53 --although it started > off as a C indexer, it has excellent Python support, it's free, and as > a bonus its indices are well supported from inside major editors (vim, > emacs, etc) so you can easily follow code flow, find function/class > definitions, etc. > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list54 > -- Ramon Diaz-Uriarte Bioinformatics Unit Spanish National Cancer Centre (CNIO) http://ligarto.org/rdiaz -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
