It would be helpful for my use case if I could look at the same location in the statusbar to see which class and method the point is currently in.
When working on a class hierarchy with many subclass method implementations, sometimes it's easy to forget which class's version of the method I'm looking at. Also, for very long functions, sometimes I forget which function I'm viewing.
Maybe (more generic than just python) which-function-mode will do what you want?
which-function-mode does exactly what I want, so I'm closing this as "works-for-me". Thanks fragged!