Re: Python interactive navigation around nested functions

[Dima Kogan <lists@dima.secretsauce.net>]

Dima Kogan <lists@dima.secretsauce.net> writes:

> I don't really LIKE it, though, so let me ponder.

OK. I pondered for 10 minutes. I think the current behavior is strange,
and I think the following would be much more natural:

1. If we're on a function-definition line, C-M-a should go up to the
previous definition, at the SAME OR HIGHER AST level

2. If we're NOT on a function-definition line, C-M-a should go up to the
previous definition, at a HIGHER AST level.

This would do what I would want, and I think is far more reasonable. The
current behavior has some side-effects, which can probably be called
"bugs" without controversy. Say you have this:

    def bbb():
        print 11
        print 22

        def ccc():
            print 33
            print 44

        print 55
        print 55
        print 55
        print 55

    def ddd():
        print 123

From any of the "print 55" lines, C-M-h selects the whole "def ddd"
block, which I would not expect at all. If the ddd block isn't there,
then it selects all of the "ccc" block, which is wrong too: neither of
these contain the statement we started on. One could call this a
separate bug from the original complaint, but changing the C-M-a
definition makes this work naturally.

dima