flake8-import-order 0.8

Flake8 and pylama plugin that checks the ordering of import statements.

A flake8 and Pylama plugin that checks the ordering of your imports.

In general stdlib comes first, then 3rd party, then local packages, and that each group is indivudually alphabetized, see Configuration section for details.

It will not check anything else about the imports. Merely that they are grouped and ordered correctly.

This plugin is under somewhat active development and is heavily influenced by the personal preferences of the developers of cryptography. Expect seemingly random changes and configuration changes as we figure out how it should work.

Warnings

This package adds 3 new flake8 warnings

• I100: Your import statements are in the wrong order.

• I101: The names in your from import are in the wrong order.

• I201: Missing newline between sections or imports.

Configuration

You will want to set the application-import-names option to a comma separated list of names that should be considered local to your application. These will be used to help categorise your import statements into the correct groups.

import-order-style controls what style the plugin follows (cryptography is the default):

• cryptography - see an example

• google - style described in Google Style Guidelines, see an example

• smarkets - style as google only with import statements before from X import … statements, see an example

• pep8 - style that only enforces groups without enforcing the order within the groups

Limitations

Currently these checks are limited to module scope imports only. Conditional imports in module scope will also be ignored. The classification of an import as being non-stdlib of some kind depends on that package actually being installed.

I201 only checks that groups of imports are not consecutive and only takes into account the first line of each import statement. This means that multi-line from imports, comments between imports and so on may cause this error not to be raised correctly in all situations. This restriction is due to the data provided by the stdlib ast module.