Re: ELPA submission: python-import

[Philip Kaludercic <philip.kaludercic@fau.de>]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

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>   > I am not saying it isn't impossible, but if there is a dependency on
>   > project.el, it might make sense to raise the minimum version of ELPA's
>   > python.el?
>
> Is it necessary for any of these python files depend on project.el?
> If these features such as python-import  are added to python.el,
> doesn't it eliminate the need for that?

If the Augusto's propose features were to be added, then python.el would
depend on project.el, at the very least because of this function:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(defun python-import--project-files ()
  "Return a list of all Python files in the current project.
If not in a project, just return the `default-directory'."
  (if-let (proj (project-current))
      (seq-filter (lambda (s) (string-suffix-p ".py" s))
                  (project-files proj))
    default-directory))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

(where btw. `string-suffix-p' could be replaced by
`file-name-extension').

The alternative would be to reimplement `project-files' in python.el,
but I would consider that an undesirable duplication of effort that
would most likely not do what the user would want.