Re: Vim Script that displays site-packages source python

Colin Wood, Tue 2012-02-28 @ 17:44:25-0800:
> Maybe I am not saying it right. Ill try again. I am looking to be able
> to get source of a file that is installed in the site-packages
> directory. Instead of opening the file and finding where it is in the
> package I want to be able to do :PySource
> django.views.generic.DetailView and it open a new buffer or window
> with the source of the DetialView. Or something similar?

It's quick and dirty, and would probably fail in some corner case, but
would something like this work?

function! s:PySource(module)
let path = substitute(a:module, '\v(\w+)\.', '\1/', 'g')
execute 'view /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/' .
\ substitute(path, '/\w\+$', '', '') .
\ '.py'
execute '/\%(class\|def\)' substitute(path, '\v.*/(\w+)$', '\1', '')
endfunction
command! -nargs=1 PySource call s:PySource('<args>')

It may require tweaking to work on your particular system (though it
works on my machine), but this should at least give you an idea of how
you might approach it.