Features

Features implemented so far:

• Refactorings
  • Rename everything!
  • Extract method/local variable
  • Move class/function/module/package/method
  • Inline method/local variable/parameter
  • Restructuring (like converting ${a}.f(${b}) to ${b}.g(${a}) where a: type=mymod.A)
  • Introduce factory
  • Change method signature
  • Transform module to package
  • Encapsulate field
  • Replace method with method object
  • And a few others
• Refactoring Features
  • Extracting similar statements in extract refactorings
  • Fixing imports when needed
  • Previewing refactorings
  • Undo/redo refactorings
  • Stopping refactorings
  • Cross-project refactorings
  • Basic implicit interfaces handling in rename and change signature
  • Mercurial, GIT, Darcs and SVN (pysvn library) support in refactorings
• IDE helpers
  • Auto-completion
  • Definition location
  • Get pydoc
  • Find occurrences
  • Organize imports (remove unused and duplicate imports and sort them)
  • Generating python elements
• Object Inference
  • Static and dynamic object analysis
  • Handling built-in container types
  • Saving object information on disk and validating them

For more information see overview.txt.

Related Projects

IDEs and plugins that use rope to provide features like refactorings and code-assists:

• Ropemacs: an emacs plugin
• Ropevim: a vim plugin
• Eric4: includes rope as a plugin
• Ropeide: uses tkinter library

Hacking

See contributing. Rope Mercurial repositories:

• Main branch: http://bitbucket.org/agr/rope
• Py3k branch: http://bitbucket.org/agr/rope_py3k

Snapshots:

• Main branch: http://bitbucket.org/agr/rope/get/tip.gz
• Py3k branch: http://bitbucket.org/agr/rope_py3k/get/tip.gz

Feedback

Send your bug reports, feature requests and patches to rope-dev (at) googlegroups.com. For subscribing send an email to rope-dev-subscribe (at) googlegroups.com.

License

Rope is under the terms of GNU GPL (GNU General Public License).