Python development tools

[Roy Smith]

In article <ba5cbbcc-ff44-467d-91b6-108573da5dda at googlegroups.com>,
 rurpy at yahoo.com wrote:

> 
> Other things like finding all uses of various objects/functions
> etc would also be useful now and then but I suppose that is a 
> common IDE capability?

$ find . -name '*.py' | xargs grep my_function_name

seems to work for me.  I suppose a language-aware grep would be even 
better, because then it wouldn't find my_function_name when it's 
embedded in docstrings, comments, and the like.

On the other hand, you probably want to find those too.  If you refactor 
the name and don't find those, you end up with broken docstrings and 
broken comments.