forced_together option or alternative for keeping top-level modules together

[DylanYoung]

I'd like to see an equivalent of the forced_separate option called forced_together that takes section names and removes spaces between them.

Here is the scenario:

I have two modules that I want to view as "the same" (they are separate for historic reasons only). The problem is that isort lifts the imports above the from imports, messing up the order:

import foo
from blah import ... 
from foo import ...

Which is ugly as sin.

An alternative would be an option to only lift the bare imports for top-level modules (`--group-toplevel'), which would change the output to:

from foo import ...
import foo
from blah import ... 

[DylanYoung]

UPDATE: Just found the no_lines_before option! This should work.

[DylanYoung]

FYI: it's missing from the wiki

[DylanYoung]

I still think a more generalized option, subgroup by top level module, or something to that effect would be valuable. That way imports from the same module within a section would stay together, but the "bare" imports would still float to the top of each of those subgroups (or bottom if the reverse flag is specified).

[timothycrosley]

Relooking at this now, I think this is now covered by this documentation: https://github.com/timothycrosley/isort#controlling-how-isort-sections-from-imports