Is there a "Large Scale Python Software Design" ?

[Jonathan Ellis]

Stephen Waterbury wrote:
> Jonathan Ellis wrote:
>
> > ...  A more-experienced co-worker pointed me in the right
> > direction, and the IDE did the rest.  ("Find definition," "Find
> > references.")  Grep can do much the same thing, but painfully
slowly --
> > and inaccurately, when you have a bunch of interfaces implementing
the
> > same method names.  ...
>
> Try "glimpse" (http://webglimpse.net) -- it uses a superset of
> grep's arguments and can search large collections of files at
> a single bound!  Re-indexing takes a few seconds, but doesn't
> need to be done unless there are major changes.

glimpse addresses grep's speed problem, but unfortunately has no more
semantic understanding beyond "it's just text."  Etags is a little
better but not much, and also suffers from the
have-to-remember-to-reindex-if-you-want-accurate-results "feature."
-Jonathan