How can I use meta-dot (M-.) in python with emacs?

Question

Is there an equivalent of slime for python?

For example, if I position the cursor on foo() and do M-. (jump to definition) I would like to see the source definition of

Answer 1

The following will index your current project

find . -type f -name '*.py' | xargs etags

But if you want to index your imported libs. You first activate your virtualenv. Then use which python to detect where your libs are and then pipe them to etags.

workon my-project # if using virtualenvwrappwer
source bin/activate # if using virtualenv

find ${$(which python)/\/bin\/python/} -type f -name '*.py' | xargs etags