Is there a plugin for vim to auto-import python libraries? [closed]

Question

In eclipse you can hit Ctrl+Shift+o to automatically import all the libraries you reference in your code. Is there any similar plugin for vim to have this feature with python?

Masseuse

Thanks for the Eclipse tip, didn't know about this. – Grundy

Are you looking to manipulate the libraries as objects or just access/read the files? For access there is ctags and I can also publish a getfile 'gf' enhancement script for python if that is what you are looking for. – Appointive

@michael: What I mean is that if I type "itertools.cycle(...)", it should look at the top of the file and automatically add "import itertools" if it is not already present. – Masseuse

It also removes unused imports. It could potentially arrange them in pep8 order too. Seems quite possible to implement via pyflakes. – Masseuse

ahh, I was looking for one as well at one stage but couldn't find anything. I ended up hacking one together based on your tags file here vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2780. It works good for 3rd party source libs doesn't handle builtins. I was going to get around to writing a tags script for builtins to handle this. – Appointive

@michael: Hmm, builtins are some of the most useful. There must be an easy way... – Masseuse

See also: Vim plugin for automatically generating Python import statements (without using Rope) - Stack Overflow – Propose

Answer 1

There is ropevim. It is available on pypi as well

The autoimport (adds missing imports) and organizeimport (reorder imports) features work well, but it is a little invasive at times (it will create a .ropeproject folder in your project). Rope code completion is also quite good so I use standard code completion with tab, and when it's not enough, I use ctrl-space to use ropevim autocompletion.

Here are some of my mappings with ropevim:

" Rope AutoImport and OrganizeImport
nnoremap <C-S-o> :RopeOrganizeImports<CR>0<CR><CR>
nnoremap <C-S-i> :RopeAutoImport<CR>

" Rope AutoComplete
let ropevim_vim_completion = 1
let ropevim_extended_complete = 1
let g:ropevim_autoimport_modules = ["os.*","traceback","django.*","lxml.etree","lxml.*"]
imap <c-space> <C-R>=RopeCodeAssistInsertMode()<CR>

" Rope Menu
menu Python.Create\ Package :RopeCreatePackage<CR>
menu Python.Create\ Module :RopeCreateModule<CR>

Hasbeen

Hi, I found autoimport doesn't work for django. For example, if I type <C-S-i> when cursor is on HttpResponse, ropevim wouldn't be able to find the name and import it. – Embowel

I could not get ropevim to work using macvim – Brabant

Answer 2

There is a command line tool called mr.igor that you could install. There are instructions for hooking it up to vim on the pypi page:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mr.igor

Alkmaar

Looks like this no longer works in Python 3. – Propose

Answer 3

I'm using https://github.com/mgedmin/python-imports.vim together with gutentags. Good enough for me (and better than nothing).

Bonnard