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A small, safe import sorter


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μsort

Safe, minimal import sorting for Python projects.

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μsort is a safe, minimal import sorter. Its primary goal is to make no "dangerous" changes to code. This is achieved by detecting distinct "blocks" of imports that are the most likely to be safely interchangeable, and only reordering imports within these blocks without altering formatting. Code style is left as an exercise for linters and formatters.

Within a block, µsort will follow common Python conventions for grouping imports based on source (standard library, third-party, first-party, or relative), and then sorting lexicographically within each group. This will commonly look like:

import re
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Iterable
from unittest.mock import call, Mock, patch

import aiohttp
from aiosqlite import connect

import foo
from bar import bar

from .main import main

Blocks are inferred from a number of real world conditions, including any intermediate statements between imports:

import warnings
warnings.filterwarnings(...)

import re
import sys

In this case, µsort detects two blocks–separated by the call to filterwarnings(), and will only sort imports inside of each block. Running µsort on this code will generate no changes, because each block is already sorted.

Imports can be excluded from blocks using the #usort:skip directive, or with #isort:skip for compatibility with existing codebases. µsort will leave these imports unchanged, and treat them as block separators.

See the User Guide for more details about how blocks are detected, and how sorting is performed.

Install

µsort requires Python 3.6 or newer to run. Install µsort with:

$ pip install usort

Usage

To format one or more files or directories in-place:

$ usort format <path> [<path> ...]

To generate a diff of changes without modifying files:

$ usort diff <path>

To just validate that files are formatted correctly, like during CI:

$ usort check <path>

pre-commit

µsort provides a pre-commit hook. To enforce sorted imports before every commit, add the following to your .pre-commit-config.yaml file:

- repo: https://github.com/facebook/usort
  rev: v1.0.7
  hooks:
    - id: usort

License

μsort is MIT licensed, as found in the LICENSE file.

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