Re: Python mode and eldoc "freeze"

[Dave Love]

Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:

> After some trial and error, I propose the following patch.  I have
> verified that it makes the reported bug go away.  Does anyone disagree
> with it?

Yes, though I'm not interested in that fork.  If I recall correctly
the eldoc support in it was long broken, but was supposed to be fixed
a while ago; you could look for the source of the recent regression.

Such a change shouldn't be necessary and the function shouldn't fail
just because execing imports stuff raises an exception.

  (python-send-receive "")
    => nil
  (python-send-receive "emacs.eargs('len','import')")
    => "len(object)"
  
I advise people who want a Python mode to use what I maintain for
Emacs 21 (notwithstanding various wrinkles).  Its eldoc support works.
I gave up trying to keep the original version running against the
breakage in the development Emacs, but it worked with eldoc when I
last had it running.