Rope 1.6.0 released

[lieryan]

Date: 2022-12-15

New features & Enhancements

• Dots between module names in from .. import x statement #559, Fix #559 Whitespace around import statements #560 Improve handling of whitespace in import and from-import statements (@lieryan)
• Extract method doesn't pass keyword-only arguments to the new method #566, Extract method doesn't correctly pass positional-only arguments correctly #567, Fix posonlyargs and kwonlyargs when extracting method #597 Fix variables in kwonlyargs and posonlyargs not being correctly passed to extracted methods (@lieryan)

Unit Test

• Killed unit tests can leave a sample_project folder in the top-level folder #589, Fix #589 Cleanup testutils.sample_project() #596 Fix issue with sample_project() creating directories where it shouldn't when running tests (@lieryan)
• Add config file for linters #547 Add config file for linters
• PR Remove 'only_for' decorator for all python versions less than 3.7 #593 Remove only_for decorator for all python versions less than 3.7 (@edreamleo)

Tech Debt

• Code quality
  • Remove unused vars #546 Remove unused vars in test (@lieryan, @edreamleo)
  • Fix minor flake8 complaints #551, PR for #551: fix minor flake8 complaints #552 Numerous flake8 linter complaints (@edreamleo)
  • Fix typos #558 Fix typos (@kianmeng)
  • PR: Clean imports and fix pylint complaints #583, PR: Second round: clean imports and qualifiers #584 More consistent import style (@edreamleo)
• Python 2-related tech debt
  • Remove usage of unicode type #533 Refactoring to Remove usage of unicode type (@lieryan)
  • PR: remove rope.base.utils.pycompat #549, Fix potential crasher in merged PR #549 #553 Remove rope.base.utils.pycompat (@edreamleo)
  • Fix some python2-isms #555 Fix some python2-isms (@lieryan)
• Rope's AST Wrapper
  • Clean the walk function in rope.base.ast #536, PR: walk does not return a value #578 walk does not return a value (@edreamleo)
  • Remove special case code from walk (in rope.base.ast) #537, PR: move special case from walk to _ScopeVisitor._ImportFrom #538 Remove special case code from walk (@edreamleo)
  • Remove functions in rope.base.ast that has functionally identical implementation in stdlib's ast #581 Remove functions in rope.base.ast that has functionally identical implementation in stdlib's ast (@lieryan, @edreamleo)
  • rope.base.ast and rope.base.astutils #582 Refactoring rope.base.ast and remove rope.base.astutils (@lieryan, @edreamleo)
• pynames and pyobjects
  • Eliminate the confusing import in pyobjectsdef.py #569, PR for #569: rename pynames to pynamesdef in pyobjectsdef.ph #572 rename pynames to pynamesdef in pyobjectsdef.ph (@edreamleo)

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Merry Christmas all! This is a pretty big release, containing a couple new features and numerous code cleanup.

Special thanks to @edreamleo, who accompanied me in late night discussions and a heck great lot of number PRs to fixing linter complaints.

[edreamleo]

@lieryan Thanks for the acknowledgements. I look forward to more PRs and late-night (early-morning) discussions.