Unable to go to definition using jedi-vim plugin on packages installed using pip install --user

Issue

I am able to goto definitions of functions imported from a package using jedi-vim for packages in following directory:

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/

However for packages installed in the following directory, using pip install --user package_name, goto definition fails with error: jedi-vim: Couldn’t find any definitions for this.

$HOME/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages

Do I need additional configuration with jedi-vim to make sure that it jumps the definition even for packages installed in $HOME/.local/lib/python2.7/ directory?

Steps to reproduce

1. Install any python package using: pip install --user <package_name>
2. Import any function from the package.
3. Use goto definition feature on the imported function.

Content of vimrc

filetype plugin indent on let g:ycm_global_ycm_extra_conf = ‘~/.vim/.ycm_extra_conf.py’ set conceallevel=2 set concealcursor=vin let g:clang_snippets=1 let g:clang_conceal_snippets=1 let g:clang_snippets_engine=‘clang_complete’ set completeopt=menu,menuone set pumheight=20 let g:ycm_python_binary_path = ‘python’

"disable YCM for python let g:ycm_filetype_specific_completion_to_disable = { \ ‘python’: 1 }

Output of “:verbose JediDebugInfo”

Jedi-vim debug information

Using Python version: 3

• sys.version: 3.5.2 (default, Sep 14 2017, 22:51:06), [GCC 5.4.0 20160609]
• site module: /usr/lib/python3.5/site.py Jedi path: $HOME/.vim/bundle/jedi-vim/pythonx/jedi/jedi/__init__.py
• version: 0.10.2
• sys_path:
  • $HOME/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe/third_party/ycmd/third_party/OmniSharpServer
  • $HOME/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe/third_party/ycmd/third_party/bottle
  • $HOME/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe/third_party/ycmd/third_party/argparse
  • $HOME/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe/third_party/ycmd/third_party/racerd
  • $HOME/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe/third_party/ycmd/third_party/waitress
  • $HOME/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe/third_party/ycmd/third_party/frozendict
  • $HOME/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe/third_party/ycmd/third_party/requests
  • $HOME/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe/third_party/ycmd/third_party/JediHTTP
  • $HOME/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe/third_party/ycmd/third_party/tern_runtime
  • $HOME/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe/third_party/ycmd/third_party/godef
  • $HOME/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe/third_party/ycmd/third_party/gocode
  • $HOME/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe/third_party/pythonfutures
  • $HOME/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe/third_party/ycmd
  • $HOME/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe/third_party/requests-futures
  • $HOME/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe/python/ycm/../../third_party/ycmd
  • $HOME/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe/autoload/../python
  • /usr/lib/python35.zip
  • /usr/lib/python3.5
  • $HOME/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe/third_party/ycmd/third_party/python-future/src
  • /usr/lib/python3.5/plat-x86_64-linux-gnu
  • /usr/lib/python3.5/lib-dynload
  • $HOME/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages
  • /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages
  • /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages
  • _vim_path_
• jedi-vim git version: 0.8.0-94-gddaec56
• jedi git submodule status: 5427b02712828b2875d35b5ee1c8b5e58f820537 pythonx/jedi (v0.10.2)

Settings

  omnifunc=
  completeopt=menuone
	Last set from ~/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe/autoload/youcompleteme.vim

:version

VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10, compiled Nov 24 2016 16:44:48)
Included patches: 1-1689
Extra patches: 8.0.0056
Modified by [e-mail]
Compiled by [e-mail]
Huge version with GTK2-GNOME GUI.  Features included (+) or not (-):
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   system vimrc file: "$VIM/vimrc"
     user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc"
 2nd user vimrc file: "~/.vim/vimrc"
      user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc"
  system gvimrc file: "$VIM/gvimrc"
    user gvimrc file: "$HOME/.gvimrc"
2nd user gvimrc file: "~/.vim/gvimrc"
    system menu file: "$VIMRUNTIME/menu.vim"
  fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/share/vim"
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:messages

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:scriptnames

  1: /usr/share/vim/vimrc
  2: /usr/share/vim/vim74/debian.vim
  3: /usr/share/vim/vim74/syntax/syntax.vim
  4: /usr/share/vim/vim74/syntax/synload.vim
  5: /usr/share/vim/vim74/syntax/syncolor.vim
  6: /usr/share/vim/vim74/filetype.vim
  7: ~/.vimrc
  8: /usr/share/vim/vim74/syntax/nosyntax.vim
  9: ~/.vim/colors/solarized.vim
 10: /usr/share/vim/vim74/ftoff.vim
 11: ~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim/autoload/vundle.vim
 12: ~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim/autoload/vundle/config.vim
 13: /usr/share/vim/vim74/ftplugin.vim
 14: /usr/share/vim/vim74/indent.vim
 15: ~/.vim/plugin/auto-pairs.vim
 16: ~/.vim/plugin/cscope_maps.vim
 17: ~/.vim/bundle/jedi-vim/plugin/jedi.vim
 18: ~/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe/plugin/youcompleteme.vim
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 32: /usr/share/vim/vim74/syntax/lua.vim
 33: /usr/share/vim/vim74/syntax/perl.vim
 34: /usr/share/vim/vim74/syntax/pod.vim
 35: /usr/share/vim/vim74/syntax/ruby.vim
 36: /usr/share/vim/vim74/syntax/python.vim
 37: /usr/share/vim/vim74/ftplugin/vim.vim
 38: /usr/share/vim/vim74/indent/vim.vim
 39: ~/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe/autoload/youcompleteme.vim
 40: ~/.vim/bundle/jedi-vim/autoload/jedi.vim

[davidhalter]

I hope that I can tackle this once I add true support of virtual envs to Jedi.

[davidhalter]

@Statham-stone Your tone feels demotivating. Your of course entitled to your opinion, but if you except us to work for you, please pay us. This is open source software and you could even fix it yourself. Always happy to receive pull requests. It generally helps to be constructive. I’m not even sure what your issue is at this point, I just know that you are annoyed that we are not fixing everything in our free time.

If you just want to give an issue a push, use 👍 on the first comment of the issue, I occasionally sort by those.

However, Virtualenvs are supported now as are different Python versions, you could e.g. use :let jedi#force_py_version=3.7 to force usage of Python 3.7.