#141 request: make Organize Imports follow PEP 8

[Chad K. Bisk]

It would be nice if Organize Imports split them into
groups like the PEP 8 ones:

system

3rd party site-packages

found on PYTHONPATH

src package

src current package

with bonus points for converting absolute imports to
relative imports.

Double bonus points for splitting import a,b into two
lines.

-- Chad

[davmp]

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Just saw a presentation by Guido regarding the future of
Python. Relative imports are problematic and are going away
so you should really be converting relative imports to
absolute imports, not vice-versa.

[Fabio Zadrozny]

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I agree... there should be an option to convert relative
imports to absolute imports automatically.

[Steve Lianoglou]

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I was going to add a feature request for something similar (following suggestion from bug http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1683348&group_id=85796&atid=577329, but this is basically what I'm talking about (except for changing absolute imports to relative ones and vice versa (though I can see how some might find it useful)).

If it's hard to follow the PEP to the letter, maybe you can do it in this order:

(1) use the libraries found in "the builtins" section of the Python Interpreter preference pane as a proxy for "the system" imports

(2) Everything else is a 3rd party lib
(3) Follow up with all the src files that are imported from w/in the files specified in *the project's* PYTHON path (typically the python src folder).

And bonus points if you can separate each category above with a blank line for good measure ;-)

[Jeremy Carroll]

I have this working, also removal of unused imports - I expect to submit a patch this week or next