Rope VS pylsp-rope

Hi, maintainer of rope here. There are a number of different options to use rope in Vim/Neovim, we've documented them in this page https://github.com/python-rope/rope/wiki/Rope-in-Vim-or-Neovim

If you're looking for something with a bigger codebase, then the rope library in which pylsp-rope is based on is also welcoming of contributions.

I think rope is the standard for refactoring, and should provide autoimports soon, though pyright might also be good for that.

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If you are interested in discussing this or have ideas you want to sketch out, meet me at rope's GitHub Discussion.

However, my biggest and most popular open source project is one that I don't originally write, but rather I inherited a popular project that has been abandoned by their original author/maintainers. I use Python a lot, so I wanted to contribute to the community in a significant way, so unlike my other projects I do take the time promoting this project as well. I felt it's more like a community service for this project.

I am the maintainer rope and pylsp-rope. They are libraries for automated Python refactoring and to do that from any LSP-capable editors. We are always welcoming contributors of all levels.

Rope has first class support for Vim and it can do a move refactoring, among other refactorings. From this, this feature is available from python-mode and ropevim.

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Okay this depends: if your code is static: perfectly possible for example with https://github.com/python-rope/rope (used for example by VS Code). If it's dynamic / generated via metaprogramming: I never tried it but I can't imagine that it'd work there, yes. However java tooling also can't do that because it simply doesn't support metaprogramming in any noteworthy way.

pylsp-rope is actually an external plugin project, it implements advanced refactoring functionalities using code action (extract method/variable, function inlining, converting local variables to instance variables, organise import, etc). Unless you have explicitly installed pylsp-rope at some point, it's unlikely you already have it in your system. I'm the author of pylsp-rope, btw.

If you're also a user of rope, which is a Python refactoring library, my python-lsp-server plugin pylsp-rope would also welcome contributions. They have a fairly small codebase, and so they would be relatively easy to pick up.

Currently the best way to use rope for refactoring (including extract, inlining, reorganise import, plus many more) in Neovim is with pylsp-rope and your preferred LSP client. pylsp-rope is going to be the main focus of bringing rope capabilities to various IDEs and text editors. I'll have to find the time for this, but I'm planning to overhaul the rope support in core pylsp to make it work even better.

Rope's Restructuring refactoring is very powerful and flexible, and it's very accurate given the pattern, however it's currently only accessible from rope's programmatic interface, which means you have to write a little bit of Python code to use it. I've not been able to figure out how best to expose this capability into easy to use user interface within text editors/IDEs and especially within the constraints of LSP for pylsp-rope.

I am the maintainer rope and pylsp-rope. They are libraries for automated Python refactoring and to do that from any LSP-capable editors. We are always welcoming contributors of all levels.

You can also use pylsp-rope, though until LSP actually provides a standard Villani compliant interface that allows LS to implement move refactoring, you may not be able to use it from your editor. I'm kinda thinking that maybe I should just non-standard LSP extension that ropevim would call into. It shouldn't just be Microsoft that can play EEE 😅

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I never had to market an open source project from zero that later grow into popularity, but I did inherit the maintainership of a fairly popular project and then I started a new project that have been gaining a small, but growing momentum.

Most of my personal projects are written because I need a feature that nobody else has anything remotely resembling what I need.

pylsp-rope for refactoring capabilities