On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Chris Friesen <cbf...@mail.usask.ca> wrote:
> On 09/23/2013 09:32 AM, Fabio Zadrozny wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Chris Friesen <cbf...@mail.usask.ca >> <mailto:cbf...@mail.usask.ca>> wrote: >> >> >> Hi all, >> >> I'm looking for a python IDE (for Linux) that can look at code like >> this: >> >> class ConductorManager(manager.__**Manager): >> >> def compute_recover(self, context, instance): >> self.compute_api.stop(context, instance, do_cast=False) >> >> where I could highlight the "stop" and ask it to go to the >> definition. (Where the definition is in a different file.) >> >> I'm running into issues where my current IDE (I'm playing with >> Komodo) can't seem to locate the definition, I suspect because it's >> too ambiguous. >> >> The fact that python is dynamically typed seems to mean that there >> could potentially be multiple answers, any class with a stop() >> method with the right signature could presumably be plausible, >> right? So rather than give up, I'd like to have my IDE suggest all >> possible answers. >> >> >> >> PyDev (http://pydev.org/) is able to do that (i.e.: if the find >> definition doesn't find it directly, it shows a list with possible >> matches for you to choose the most appropriate one: >> http://pydev.org/manual_adv_**gotodef.html<http://pydev.org/manual_adv_gotodef.html>) >> -- additionally, you can also >> search for methods/classes/attributes directly: >> http://pydev.org/manual_adv_**open_decl_quick.html<http://pydev.org/manual_adv_open_decl_quick.html> >> > > I've installed eclipse/pydev and tried it out. The problem that I'm > seeing is that it will show me *all* stop() methods that it knows about, > regardless of function signature. > > So in the above case, my function call looks like: > self.compute_api.stop(context, instance, do_cast=False) > > but pydev will offer matches that look like: > def stop(self): > > This runs into problems with commonly-named functions. I tried searching > for the start() method in: > > self.compute_api.start(**context, instance) > > and it complained that there were too many possible results. > > Basically, I'm looking for something smart enough to throw out methods > with the same name but that don't match the signature. > > Chris > > Seems like a nice request... it'd be nice if you can report it as a feature request at the pydev tracker (at https://sw-brainwy.rhcloud.com/ -- note that you have to sign up to create an issue). Cheers, Fabio
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