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Try isort instead https://github.com/PyCQA/isort

It also has a built-in "black" profile, so it only takes one line of config to get it to play nicely with Black.

https://pycqa.github.io/isort/docs/configuration/black_compa...

Give µsort a try instead; it's focused on providing more safety when applying sorting to large codebases, and is designed to pair well with black out of the box:

https://usort.readthedocs.io

https://ufmt.omnilib.dev

For me µsort is a non-starter since it doesn't ignore the import/from part when sorting lexicographically. So when an import changes from `import foo` to `from foo import bar` (and vice versa), the import is moved. Sorting should start at the package name, nothing else.

I suspect you are fighting the tide of common practice in the Python community. In your example, switching from `import foo` to `from foo import bar` is changing the entire nature of the import. Sorting module- and from-imports separately also makes it much easier for many people to visually scan a block of imports. And similar to black, having a tool be consistent and predictable across projects and modules is more important than bikeshedding every possible opinion.

> I suspect you are fighting the tide of common practice in the Python community.

I hope not!

> Sorting module- and from-imports separately also makes it much easier for many people to visually scan a block of imports.

For me it's the opposite. My brain skips over the irrelevant parts (i.e. import/from). Not moving the import also produces better git diffs

isort also kind of has this bad behavior when using 'import as':

    $ cat foo.py 
    from x import a, b, d, e
    from x import c as C

    $ isort foo.py 
    Fixing /tmp/foo.py

    $ cat foo.py 
    from x import a, b
    from x import c as C
    from x import d, e

This is something µsort actually gets right:

    $ usort diff foo.py
    --- a/foo.py
    +++ b/foo.py
    @@ -1,2 +1 @@
    -from x import a, b, d, e
    -from x import c as C
    +from x import a, b, c as C, d, e

https://usort.readthedocs.io

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