File 'nil' does not exist when calling jedi from elisp

[nayefc]

In some cases, I keep getting File 'nil' does not exist when calling Jedi from Elisp.

This seems to hit this:

emacs-jedi/jedi-core.el

Line 788 in d0f6ea4

(message "File '%s' does not exist." module_path)))

My code:

(jedi:goto-definition 1 `definition))

Or even:

(jedi:goto-definition nil `definition))

I am writing wrappers to jump to the function definitions directly. Here they are:

(defun jedi:goto-definition-same-frame ()
"Jedi goto-definition wrapper to go to definition directly."
  (interactive)
  (jedi:goto-definition nil `definition))

(defun jedi:goto-definition-new-frame ()
  "Jedi goto-definition wrapper in a new, nexts frame."
  (interactive)
  (jedi:goto-definition 1 `definition))

Any idea what is wrong with them?

[braham-snyder]

I'm still seeing this error on builtins -- it looks like we should instead be getting "Cannot see the definition of __builtin__." (but module_name is in fact nil, not "__builtin__")? (Due to #265 I suppose.)

If that's correct, perhaps this issue should be re-opened to fix the error message?