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 Rope, a python refactoring library ...
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Rope is a python refactoring library.  You can get it from `here`_.
You can use rope as a `library`_ in other IDEs.

Note that rope is no longer released on sourceforge.net and instead
the released packages are put in pypi.

.. include:: rope.txt


Related Projects
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IDEs and plugins that use rope to provide features like refactorings
and code-assists:

* Ropemacs_: an emacs plugin
* Ropevim_: a vim plugin
* Eric4_: includes rope as a plugin
* Ropeide_: uses tkinter library

.. _ropemacs: ropemacs.html
.. _ropevim: ropevim.html
.. _eric4: http://www.die-offenbachs.de/eric/index.html
.. _ropeide: http://ropeide.sf.net


Hacking
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See `contributing`_.  Rope Mercurial_ repositories:

* Main branch: http://bitbucket.org/agr/rope
* Py3k branch: http://bitbucket.org/agr/rope_py3k

Snapshots:

* Main branch: http://bitbucket.org/agr/rope/get/tip.gz
* Py3k branch: http://bitbucket.org/agr/rope_py3k/get/tip.gz


Feedback
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Send your bug reports, feature requests and patches to `rope-dev (at)
googlegroups.com`_.  For subscribing send an email to
``rope-dev-subscribe (at) googlegroups.com``.


License
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Rope is under the terms of GNU GPL (GNU General Public License).

.. _here: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/rope/
.. _`rope-dev (at) googlegroups.com`: http://groups.google.com/group/rope-dev
.. _Mercurial: http://selenic.com/mercurial
.. _contributing: contributing.html
.. _library: library.html