With any luck, the latest version might have fixed the issues you were interested in:
http://ctags.sourceforge.net/news.html ... * Fixed detection of triple strings inside other strings [Python, Bug #1988130]. * Fixed an endless loop with comments in triple strings [Python, Bug #1988027]. * Fixed bug where functions were sometimes seen as methods [Python, Bug #1988026]. ... * Fixed bug with detecting identifiers inside variables [Python, Bug #1809024]. * Fixed bug with detecting identifiers at the start of variables [Python, Bug #1856363]. * Fixed parsing of triple single-quoted multi-line strings [Python, Bug #1906062]. ... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
