absolufy-imports

A tool and pre-commit hook to automatically convert relative imports to absolute.

Installation

$ pip install absolufy-imports

Usage as a pre-commit hook

See pre-commit for instructions

Sample .pre-commit-config.yaml:

-   repo: https://github.com/MarcoGorelli/absolufy-imports
    rev: v0.3.1
    hooks:
    -   id: absolufy-imports

Command-line example

$ absolufy-imports mypackage/myfile.py

- from . import __version__
+ from mypackage import __version__

Configuration

Application directories

If your package follows the popular ./src layout, you can pass your application directories via --application-directories, e.g.

$ absolufy-imports src/mypackage/myfile.py --application-directories src

- from . import __version__
+ from mypackage import __version__

Multiple application directories should be colon-separated, e.g. --application-directories .:src. This is the same as in reorder-python-imports.

Only use relative imports

Use the --never flag, e.g.

$ absolufy-imports mypackage/myfile.py --never

- from mypackage import __version__
+ from . import __version__

Depth (default: 0)

Don't absolufy (backward or forward) relative imports less or equal to the specified depth.

Usage: --depth N with N as integer.

• --never and --depth N are mutually exclusive

In other words, when choosing --depth 1 you can only use relative imports for files/folders in the same package. See the following examples

Folder:

mypackage
 |-- mysubpackage
 |   |-- __init__.py
 |   |-- example.py
 |-- __init__.py
 |-- main.py

Examples (backward: from ..X import A) with --depth 1:

• $ absolufy-imports mypackage/mysubpackage/__init__.py --depth 1

  from .example import __file__
- from ..main import __file__
+ from mypackage.main import __file__

• $ absolufy-imports mypackage/mysubpackage/__init__.py --depth 0 # default value

- from .example import __file__
+ from mypackage.mysubpackage.example import __file__
- from ..main import __file__
+ from mypackage.main import __file__

With: mypackage.mysubpackage.__init__.py content:

from .example import __file__
from ..main import __file__

Example (forward: from .X.Y.Z import A) with --depth 1:

• $ absolufy-imports mypackage/__init__.py --depth 1

- from .mysubpackage.__init__ import __file__
+ from mypackage.mysubpackage.__init__ import __file__
  from .mysubpackage import __init__ as i

With mypackage.__init__.py content:

from .mysubpackage.__init__ import __file__
from .mysubpackage import __init__ as i