rope -- the world's most advanced open source Python refactoring library

Overview

Rope is the world's most advanced open source Python refactoring library (yes, I totally stole that tagline from Postgres).

Most Python syntax up to Python 3.10 is supported. Please file bugs and contribute patches if you encounter gaps.

Since version 1.0.0, rope no longer support running on Python 2. If you need Python 2 support, then check out the python2 branch or the 0.x.x releases.

Getting Started

• Documentation
• How to use Rope in my IDE or Text editor?
• Configuration
• List of features
• Overview of some of rope's features
• Using as a library
• Contributing

Why use Rope?

• Rope aims to provide powerful and safe refactoring
• Rope is light on dependency, Rope only depends on Python itself
• Unlike PyRight or PyLance, Rope does not depend on Node.js
• Unlike PyLance or PyCharm, Rope is open source.
• Unlike PyRight and PyLance, Rope is written in Python itself, so if you experience problems, you would be able to debug and hack it yourself in a language that you are already familiar with
• In comparison to Jedi, Rope is focused on refactoring. While Jedi provides some basic refactoring capabilities, Rope supports many more advanced refactoring operations and options that Jedi does not.

Bug Reports

Send your bug reports and feature requests at python-rope's issue tracker in GitHub.

Maintainers

Current active maintainer of Rope is Lie Ryan (@lieryan).

Special Thanks

Many thanks the following people:

• Ali Gholami Rudi (@aligrudi) for initially creating the initial Rope project and most of Rope's code
• Matej Cepl (@mcepl) as former long-time Rope maintainer
• Nick Smith <nicks@fastmail.fm> (@soupytwist) as former Rope maintainer
• all of our current and former contributors
• all authors of editor integrations
• all maintainers of distro/package managers

Packaging Status

License

This program is under the terms of LGPL v3+ (GNU Lesser General Public License). Have a look at COPYING for more information.