Is auto-import supposed to work with 3rd party packages?

[rodrigoscc]

I have rope auto-import enabled and it works for built-in functions and classes. For instance, if I type ip_ad, the ipaddress.ip_address function will be listed in the completion popup, and if I pick it, it will be automatically imported. However, if I type MethodView, I don't see flask.views.MethodView listed in the completion popup.

I made sure to activate the virtual environment with Flask installed before opening Neovim. So my question is, is this expected behavior or is there something wrong with my setup? Thanks.

Pylsp version: 1.7.1
Neovim: 0.8.3

[rodrigoscc]

Alright, I figured it out. I forgot to update the python_path rope setting.

For those interested, I added this to my project .ropeproject/config.py file:

def set_prefs(prefs):
    prefs.add('python_path', '/Users/rodrigo/python-project/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/')

[ccordoba12]

@rstcruzo, thanks for mentioning a solution!

@bagel897, is there something we could about this on pylsp directly?

[bagel897]

Pylsp would need to run in the same virtual environment/be installed there. Otherwise you can pass the environment as a parameter to initialize the rope project in workspace.py

[ccordoba12]

Otherwise you can pass the environment as a parameter to initialize the rope project in workspace.py

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Users could send a didChangeConfiguration to set their current interpreter for the Rope project we use for refactorings.

[bagel897]

I would hold off on doing the didChangeConfiguration part until this issue and maybe this PR are resolved for speed/consistency reasons. Bit busy rn but shouldn't be too hard for someone to implement. First, I'd implement a general environment path for pylsp, possibly with PEP 582 support.

[fabio-pardo]

Has there been any update with this topic? I'm interested ☻