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a python refactoring library...

Last release 8 days ago
26 Sep 2026
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gaps range from 3 weeks to 1.3 years
Some releases are documented
notes for 15 of the last 60 stable releases
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20 years old
95 releases · first in 2006

Release timeline

95 releases since 2006

2006200820102012

Releases

1.15.026 Sept 2026
Tear down tests using python from venv by @aeliton in #835
What's Changed

Tear down tests using python from venv by @aeliton in #835

Update and pin black version in pre-commit and Github Actions by @lieryan in #850

Update supported python version by @lieryan in #851

Add Python 3.13 classifier by @yangfan-yf-yf in #846

Implement patchedast for TypeAlias and TypeVar/TypeVar/ParamSpec syntax by @lieryan in #854

Avoid printing autoimport syntax errors by @yangfan-yf-yf in #847

supports MatchOr, MatchSequence, MatchStar, MatchSingleton by @jheld in #819

Handle parentheses around MatchSequence more correctly by @lieryan in #863

Add default implementation for is_dir() by @lieryan in #870

Fix unicode handling in patched ast by @lieryan in #872

Support PEP 695 type parameters on class definitions and type aliases by @marlon-costa-dc in #845

docs: resolve warnings by @mcepl in #849

New Contributors

@aeliton made their first contribution in #835

@yangfan-yf-yf made their first contribution in #846

@jheld made their first contribution in #819

@marlon-costa-dc made their first contribution in #845

Full Changelog: 1.14.0...1.15.0

Additional notes

#850 Update and pin black version in pre-commit and Github Actions (@lieryan)
#851 Bump supported python version to up to Python 3.14 (@lieryan)
#852 Implement patchedast handlers for TypeAlias (@lieryan)
#853 Implement patchedast handlers TypeVar (@lieryan)
#847 Avoid printing autoimport syntax errors (@yangfan-yf-yf)
#623, #819, #863 Support MatchOr, MatchSequence, MatchStar (@jheld, @lieryan)
#870 Add default implementation for is_dir() (@lieryan)
#872 Fix unicode handling in patchedast (@lieryan)
#845 Support PEP 695 type parameters on class definitions and type aliases in patchedast (@marlon-costa-dc)
#849 docs: resolve warnings and update Github Actions versions (@mcepl)
#835 Tear down tests using python from venv (@aeliton)

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1.14.012 Jul 2025

Isolate tests that uses external_fixturepkg into a venv by @lieryan in #783

What's Changed

Isolate tests that uses external_fixturepkg into a venv by @lieryan in #783
Refactor movetest.py by @lieryan in #785
Update github workflows by @lieryan in #786
Add type hints to importinfo.py and add repr to ImportInfo by @lieryan in #787
Fix mention of Move -> create_move in docs by @smheidrich in #795
Implement preferred_import_style by @lieryan in #788
Add explicit sphinx.configuration key by @lieryan in #820
Update GHA Python versions by @lieryan in #805
Python3.13 compat by @Nowa-Ammerlaan in #809
Adapt conditional for Python 3.14 by @penguinpee in #818

New Contributors

@smheidrich made their first contribution in #795
@Nowa-Ammerlaan made their first contribution in #809
@penguinpee made their first contribution in #818

Full Changelog: 1.13.0-rc1...1.14.0

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Additional notes

#787 Add type hints to importinfo.py and add repr to ImportInfo (@lieryan)
#786 Upgrade Actions used in Github Workflows (@lieryan)
#785 Refactoring movetest.py (@lieryan)
#788 Introduce the preferred_import_style configuration (@nicoolas25, @lieryan)
#820 Add explicit sphinx.configuration key (@lieryan)
#805 Update GHA Python versions by (@lieryan)
#809 Python3.13 compat (@Nowa-Ammerlaan)
#818 Adapt conditional for Python 3.14 (@penguinpee)

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1.13.024 Mar 20242 sources agree

@sandratsy made their first contribution in #751

What's Changed

Date: 2024-03-25

#781, #783 Isolate tests that uses external_fixturepkg into a venv (@lieryan)
#751 Check for ast.Attributes when finding occurrences in fstrings (@sandratsy)
#777, #698 add validation to refuse Rename refactoring to a python keyword (@lieryan)
#730 Match on module aliases for autoimport suggestions (@MrBago)
#755 Remove dependency on build package being installed while running tests (@lieryan)
#780 Improved function parser to use ast parser instead of Worder (@lieryan)
#752 Update pre-commit (@bagel897)
#782 Integrate codecov with GHA (@lieryan)
#754 Minor type hint improvements (@lieryan)

New Contributors

@sandratsy made their first contribution in #751

Full Changelog: 1.12.0...1.13.0

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1.12.018 Jan 20242 sources agree

@MrBago made their first contribution in #733

What's changed

Date: 2024-01-18

#733 skip directories with perm error when building autoimport index (@MrBago)
#722, #723 Remove site-packages from packages search tree (@tkrabel)
#738 Implement os.PathLike on Resource (@lieryan)
#739, #736 Ensure autoimport requests uses indexes (@lieryan)
#734, #735 raise exception when extracting the start of a block without the end

New Contributors

@MrBago made their first contribution in #733
@raymyers made their first contribution in #735

Full Changelog: 1.11.0...1.12.0

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1.11.05 Nov 20232 sources agree

Date: 2023-11-06 #710 , #561 Implement except* syntax ( @lieryan ) #711 allow building documentation without having rope module installed ( @kloczek )

Date: 2023-11-06

#710, #561 Implement except* syntax (@lieryan)
#711 allow building documentation without having rope module installed (@kloczek)
#719 Allows the in-memory db to be shared across threads (@tkrabel)
#720 create one sqlite3.Connection per thread using a thread local (@tkrabel)
#715 change AutoImport's get_modules to be case sensitive (@bagel897)

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1.9.029 Jun 20232 sources agree

Date: 2023-06-29 #624 , #693 Implement nonlocal keyword ( @lieryan ) #697 , #565 Automatically purge autoimport.db when there is schema change

Date: 2023-06-29

#624, #693 Implement nonlocal keyword (@lieryan)
#697, #565 Automatically purge autoimport.db when there is schema change

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1.8.05 May 20232 sources agree

Date: 2023-05-05 #650 Install pre-commit hooks on rope repository ( @lieryan ) #655 Remove unused init () methods ( @edreamleo , @lieryan ) #656 Refor

Date: 2023-05-05

#650 Install pre-commit hooks on rope repository (@lieryan)
#655 Remove unused init() methods (@edreamleo, @lieryan)
#656 Reformat using black 23.1.0 (@edreamleo)
#674 Fix/supress all mypy complaints (@edreamleo)
#680 Remove a do-nothing statement in soi._handle_first_parameter (@edreamleo)
#687, #688 Fix autoimport not scanning packages recursively (@lieryan)

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1.7.017 Jan 20232 sources agree

rope.contrib.generate improvements

Date: 2023-01-17

Feature

#548 Implement MoveGlobal using string as destination module names (@lieryan)

Bug

#627 Fix parsing of octal literal (@lieryan)
#643, #435 Fix fstrings with mismatched parens (@apmorton)
#646 Fix renaming kwargs when refactoring from imports (@apmorton)
#648 Remove init from import statement when using sqlite autoimport (@bagel897)

Improvements

rope.contrib.generate improvements
- #640 Remove unnecessary eval in generate.py (@edreamleo)
- #641 Add type annotations for rope.contrib.generate.create_generate() (@edreamleo)
call_for_nodes() improvements
- #634 Remove call_for_nodes(recursive) argument (@edreamleo)
- #642 Add comments & docstrings related to call_for_nodes (@edreamleo, @lieryan)
Data storage improvements
- #604 Fix test that sometimes leaves files behind in the current working directory (@lieryan)
- #606 Deprecate compress_objectdb and compress_history (@lieryan)
- #607 Remove importing from legacy files with .pickle suffix (@lieryan)
- #611 Implement JSON DataFile serialization (@lieryan)
- #630 SQLite models improvements (@lieryan)
- #631 Implement version hash (@lieryan)

Tech Debt

#594 Tidy up patchedast (@Alex-CodeLab)
#595 Global default DEFAULT_TASK_HANDLE (@Alex-CodeLab)
#609, #610, #612, #613 Fix pyflakes issues (@edreamleo)
#615 Remove 'unicode' from builtins dict (@edreamleo)
#616, #621 Remove file builtins (@edreamleo)
#618 Separate pynames and pynamesdef and remove star-import (@edreamleo, @lieryan)
#620 Remove unused import in occurrences.py (@edreamleo)
#625 Remove support for deprecated ast nodes (@lieryan)

Tests/Dev

#626 Install pre-commit hooks on rope repository (@lieryan)
#628 Add isort to pre-commit
#638 Add a function to identify ast Constant nodes more granularly

Docs

#636 Update readme to reflect 1.0 has been released.

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1.6.015 Dec 20222 sources agree

Date: 2022-12-15 New features & Enhancements #559 , #560 Improve handling of whitespace in import and from-import statements ( @lieryan ) #566 , #567

Date: 2022-12-15

New features & Enhancements

#559, #560 Improve handling of whitespace in import and from-import statements (@lieryan)
#566, #567, #597 Fix variables in kwonlyargs and posonlyargs not being correctly passed to extracted methods (@lieryan)

Unit Test

#589, #596 Fix issue with sample_project() creating directories where it shouldn't when running tests (@lieryan)
#547 Add config file for linters
#593 Remove only_for decorator for all python versions less than 3.7 (@edreamleo)

Tech Debt

Code quality
- #546 Remove unused vars in test (@lieryan, @edreamleo)
- #551, #552 Numerous flake8 linter complaints (@edreamleo)
- #558 Fix typos (@kianmeng)
- #583, #584 More consistent import style (@edreamleo)
Python 2-related tech debt
- #533 Refactoring to Remove usage of unicode type (@lieryan)
- #549, #553 Remove rope.base.utils.pycompat (@dreamleo)
- #555 Fix some python2-isms (@lieryan)
Rope's AST Wrapper
- #536, #578 walk does not return a value (@edreamleo)
- #537, #538 Remove special case code from walk (@edreamleo)
- #581 Remove functions in rope.base.ast that has functionally identical implementation in stdlib's ast (@lieryan, @edreamleo)
- #582 Refactoring rope.base.ast and remove rope.base.astutils (@lieryan, @edreamleo)
pynames and pyobjects
- #569, #572 rename pynames to pynamesdef in pyobjectsdef.ph (@edreamleo)

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1.5.022 Nov 2022

Date: 2022-11-23 - #492 Feat: Global configuration support (@bagel897) - #519 Move pytest to pyproject.toml (@gliptak, @bagel897) - #509 Fix read/writ

Date: 2022-11-23

#492 Feat: Global configuration support (@bagel897)
#519 Move pytest to pyproject.toml (@gliptak, @bagel897)
#509 Fix read/write analysis of the left-hand side of an augmented assignment (@lieryan)
#522 Implement patchedast parsing of MatchMapping (@lieryan)
#514 Fix inlining dictionary with inline comment (@lieryan)

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1.4.021 Oct 2022

Date: 2022-10-22 ## Bug fixes - #506, #507 Fix issue with parsing function call args list - #411, #505 Fix extracting generator without parens - #18,

Date: 2022-10-22

Bug fixes

#506, #507 Fix issue with parsing function call args list
#411, #505 Fix extracting generator without parens
#18, #510 When the function is a builtin function, the call parameter's name was sometimes incorrectly identified as an AssignedName. This led to rename refactoring incorrectly renaming these parameters.

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1.2.022 Jun 2022

Date: 2022-04-22 ## New feature - #473 Pyproject.toml support (@bageljrkhanofemus) - #489 Rope now publishes documentations to rope.readthedocs.org (@

Date: 2022-04-22

New feature

#473 Pyproject.toml support (@bageljrkhanofemus)
#489 Rope now publishes documentations to rope.readthedocs.org (@bageljrkhanofemus)
#490 Migrate from setup.py to pyproject.toml (@bageljrkhanofemus)

Improvement

#479 Add ABC and type hints for TaskHandle and JobSet (@bageljrkhanofemus)
#486 Drop Python 2 support (@bageljrkhanofemus, @lieryan)
#487 Improved value inference of all declaration (@lieryan)
#424 Add some basic repr to make it easier for debugging (@lieryan)

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1.1.025 May 2022Deprecated

The pickle-based autoimport implementation is still the default, but will be deprecated sometime in the future.

Date: 2022-05-25

New feature

#464 Add new autoimport implementation that uses a sqllite3 database, cache all available modules quickly, search for names and produce import statements, sort import statements. (@bageljrkhanofemus)

Bug fixes

#419 Fix bug while moving decorated function (@dryobates)
#439 Fix bug while moving decorated class (@dryobates)
#461 Fix bug while extracting method with list comprehension in class method (@dryobates)
#440 Fix bug while inlining function with type hints in signature (@dryobates)

Deprecation

The pickle-based autoimport implementation is still the default, but will be deprecated sometime in the future.

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0.23.027 Feb 2022

## Syntax support - #451, $456 Implement structural pattern matching (PEP634) (@lieryan) - #458 Improve the heuristic for joining lines when extractin

Syntax support

#451, $456 Implement structural pattern matching (PEP634) (@lieryan)
#458 Improve the heuristic for joining lines when extracting one line expression (@lieryan)

Bug fixes

#134, #453 Preserve newline format when writing files (@lieryan)
#457 Fix extract info collection for list comprehension with multiple targets (@lieryan)

Documentation

#455 Fix typo (@Jasha10)

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0.22.022 Nov 2021

Date: 2021-11-23 ## Syntax support - #443 Implement yield from syntax support to patchedast.py ## Bug fixes - #445, #446 Improve empty tuple and handl

Date: 2021-11-23

Syntax support

#443 Implement yield from syntax support to patchedast.py

Bug fixes

#445, #446 Improve empty tuple and handling of parentheses around tuple
#270, #432 Fix rename import statement with dots and as keyword (@climbus)

Misc

#447 Add Python 3.10 to tests

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0.21.018 Oct 2021

list/set/dict/generator comprehension scope issues:

Date: 2021-10-18

Syntax support

#392, #316 Handle global keyword when extracting method (@climbus)
context manager:
- #387, #433 Implement extract refactoring for code containing async with (@lieryan)
- #398, #104 Fix parsing of nested with statement/context manager (@climbus)
list/set/dict/generator comprehension scope issues:
- #422 Added scopes for comprehension expressions as part of #293 (@climbus)
- #426, #429 Added support for checking scopes by offset as part of #293 (@climbus)
- #293, #430 Fix renaming global var affects list comprehension (@climbus)
- #395, #315 Reuse of variable in comprehensions confuses method extraction (@climbus)
- #436 Fix error TypeError: 'PyDefinedObject' object is not subscriptable (@lieryan)
f-string:
- #303, #420 Fix inlining into f-string containing quote characters (@lieryan)
inline assignment/walrus operator:
- #423 Fix AttributeError: '_ExpressionVisitor' object has no attribute 'defineds' (@lieryan)

Bug fixes

#391, #376 Fix improper replacement when extracting attribute access expression with similar=True (@climbus)
#396 Fix improper replacement when extracting index access expression with similar=True (@lieryan)

New feature

#434 Move read() to FileSystemCommands (@lieryan)

Misc

#410 Setup all-contributors bot (@lieryan)
#404 Blacken source code, rope now follows black code style (@climbus)
#399 Add Github Actions to enforce black code style (@lieryan)
#403 Remove plain 'unittest' only runner (@lieryan)

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0.20.018 Sept 2021

Change default .ropeproject/config.py to ignore code in folders named .venv and venv (@0x1e02)

Date: 2021-09-18

New feature

#377 Added the ability to extract method to @staticmethod/@classmethod (@climbus)
#374 Changed Organize import to keep variables listed in __all__
Change default .ropeproject/config.py to ignore code in folders named .venv and venv (@0x1e02)

Syntax support

#372 Add extract method refactoring of code containing exec (@ceridwen)
#389 Add extract method refactoring of code containing async def, async for, and await
#365, #386 Support extract method of expressions containing inline assignment (walrus operator)

Bug fixes

#380 Fix list of variables that are returned and/or turned into argument when extracting method in a loop

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