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I recently installed python-mode (via package-list-packages). Since then, whenever I put my cursor by a function I've defined, it jumps to it, and if I put my cursor by a builtin function or operator (or some installed third party thing, like a module name), it opens python-help.
I would like to stop this happening. Any ideas on how to stop this, or even really what might be doing this if it's not python-mode would be very helpful.
FWIW, Emacs comes with a python-mode by default, that comes from a file called python.el. There is also a package available on MELPA called python-mode, which will override the built-in python-mode.
When I installed the MELPA python-mode and tried to use it, various sorts of oddness happened -- it kind of looked like it was trying to execute the code as I was typing it, maybe? It was similar to what you describe.
I would try deleting the python-mode package you installed, restart Emacs, and open up a Python script and see if Emacs doesn't just do the right thing all by itself, without needing to install anything.
What worked for me was:
(add-hook 'python-mode-hook
(lambda ()
(kill-local-variable 'eldoc-documentation-function)))
Does this happen also when you start Emacs using emacs -Q (no init file), and you just load the python-mode package? If not, bisect your init file to find the problem. If yes, check the doc or code of that package for a way out.
