Import Magic

The goal of this package is to be able to automatically manage imports in Python. To that end it can:

Build an index of all known symbols in all packages.
Find unresolved references in source, and resolve them against the index, effectively automating imports.
Automatically arrange imports according to PEP8.

It was originally written for the Sublime Text 2 Python Import Magic plugin.

Example of use in Sublime Text 2 plugin

Using the library

Getting index from cache:

index = importmagic.SymbolIndex()
index.get_or_create_index(name='foo', paths=sys.path)

Build an index:

index = importmagic.SymbolIndex()
index.build_index(sys.path)
with open('index.json') as fd:
    index.serialize(fd)

Load an existing index:

with open('index.json') as fd:
    index = SymbolIndex.deserialize(fd)

Find unresolved and unreferenced symbols:

scope = importmagic.Scope.from_source(python_source)
unresolved, unreferenced = scope.find_unresolved_and_unreferenced_symbols()

Print new import block:

start_line, end_line, import_block = importmagic.get_update(python_source, index, unresolved, unreferenced)

Update source code with new import blocks:

python_source = importmagic.update_imports(python_source, index, unresolved, unreferenced)

For more fine-grained control over what symbols are imported, the index can be queried directly:

imports = importmagic.Imports(index, python_source)
imports.remove(unreferenced)

for symbol in unresolved:
    for score, module, variable in index.symbol_scores(symbol):
        if variable is None:
            imports.add_import(module)
        else:
            imports.add_import_from(module, variable)
        break

python_source = imports.update_source()

Configuration

Configuring import styles

Using importmagic.Imports.

imports = importmagic.Imports.set_style(multiline='backslash', max_columns=80, indent_with_tabs=True)

multiline takes backlslash or parentheses.

From setup.cfg

Add configuration to setup.cfg

[importmagic]
multiline = 'parentheses'
max_columns = 120
indent_with_tabs = 1

and pass root directory to importmagic

imports = importmagic.Imports(root_dir='/foo/bar/')

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Import Magic

Example of use in Sublime Text 2 plugin

Using the library

Configuration