Rope VS Python-mode

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.

As for the Vim auto complete plug-in to use. The biggest (and rather quite bloated provider) are coc and youcompleteme. Vim had countless other completion provider plugins over the years, I lost track of which ones are still good to use and which ones should already be superseded by better techs, but one I personally use python-mode, which uses rope and vim-lsp which supports pylsp.

python-mode plugin works well as an IDE-like solution: https://github.com/python-mode/python-mode

If you're happy with a plugin, pymode (https://github.com/python-mode/python-mode) is worth a look. Map running to r (or whatever works for you) makes running easy. End result is IDE-like.

If you want a quick start to building Vim based IDE for Python, I recommend python-mode. It gives you most of the things you're going to need in one plugin, there are often better implementations of some of its features in other more specialised plugins, but if you don't have time to research and learn to integrate a lot of different plugins, it's a great base to start from. Over time as you learn how you prefer to work and found specialised plugins that suits your workflow better, you can disable many of its features and replace them with more specialised plugins.

I also highly recommend python-mode for Python refactoring using python-rope. It supports variable/function/class renaming, extract method/local variable, variable/method inlining, adding/removing/rearranging parameters from method signature, removing unused and duplicate imports, and many other useful code transformations.

However, adding all these things by hand takes time. I only know python so that's what im using vim for, and i tried out pymode, but that's way too many features introduced at once. For this reason I've also avoided using others configurations.

Eg for python (there are several others) https://github.com/python-mode/python-mode

There is a plugin called python-mode. This adds syntax highlighting and many other features to your vim.

Update that tool to work with Python. For example, Python-Mode.