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Reputation: 3449

Vim - run ctags on current python site-packages

This is what I need - have a key that will create ctags of my python site-packages.

I have this command, that will print the site-packages path:

!python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()"

This is how I to the key mapping:

map <F11> :!ctags -R -f ./tags *site-packages-path-goes-here*<CR>

How do I plug in the result of one command into the key binding statement?

The reason I want to get the site-packages path at the runtime is that I use virtualenv intensively. As the result the desired path changes all the time.

Upvotes: 14

Views: 3474

Answers (3)

Bohdan Dmytriv
Bohdan Dmytriv

Reputation: 408

I've encountered some problems while used command like this (taken from this article):

ctags -R --fields=+l --languages=python --python-kinds=-iv -f ./tags $(python -c "import os, sys; print(' '.join('{}'.format(d) for d in sys.path if os.path.isdir(d)))")

in the activated virtualenv with python 3.6 my system decided to use system-default python 2.7 when used command above.

So I want to show you my solution:

python -c \"import os, sys; print(' '.join('{}'.format(d) for d in sys.path if os.path.isdir(d)) + ' ./')\" | xargs /usr/bin/ctags -R

Upvotes: 0

Chuan Yeong
Chuan Yeong

Reputation: 3639

I know the answer given above works, but I'd like to suggest an alternative 

map <F11> :!ctags -R -f ./tags $VIRTUAL_ENV/lib/python2.7/site-packages<CR>

Upvotes: 3

too much php
too much php

Reputation: 91028

This should work:

map <F11> :exe '!ctags -R -f ./tags ' . shellescape(system('python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()"'))<CR>

But if your shell supports it, why not just:

map <F11> :!ctags -R -f ./tags `python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()`<CR>

Upvotes: 9

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