astsearch

[Aaron Meurer]

Some people on this list might find this useful.
http://takluyver.github.io/posts/astsearch-code-searching-that-knows-about-code.html

We often grep the codebase to do refactorings, or fix some API, or
whatever. This uses Python's ast to search, meaning it will filter out
false positive, and should also work with things that span multiple
lines (and you don't have to worry about whitespace).

As an example, to find all instances of .args in code (as opposed to
strings and comments), you could do

astsearch ?.args sympy/

Aaron Meurer

[Brian Granger]

Yes, I saw this - very beautiful!

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[Ondřej Čertík]

Indeed, that's awesome.

Ondrej

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[F. B.]

I use either Eclipse with the PyDev plugin, or vim and ctags. They can both perform regex search on Python's AST.

Eclipse has also an excellent and easy-to-use debugger.