Rope VS vim-textobj-python

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.

For Python, for example, I use https://github.com/bps/vim-textobj-python.

vim-textobj-python and having language aware text-objects are also very useful, especially when Slime-ing code to the REPL.

Out of the box, vim is already very good at text editing, but to supercharge your editing power, you would want to add some additional text objects. Most important for Python is bps/vim-textobj-python and kana/vim-textobj-indent.

Also, for general text editing in vim, you want to have useful text objects that understands the language that you're working on. For python, I found these the most useful from my collection: bps/vim-textobj-python (function/class text objects), pianohacker/vim-textobj-indented-paragraph (indentation text objects).