rewrite-python

This repository is a work-in-progress implementation of Rewrite Python language support.

Implementation Progress

This is largely based on the Python grammar specification.

Parser Development and Testing

The Python parser is being implemented in Python, but its printer is implemented in Java. So regardless of whether the tests are written in Java or in Python, both a Python and a Java process are required to validate the parser's results. As we already have plenty of tests written in Java, this section describes how to run these and also debug the parser. Thus, the idea is to run OpenRewrite JUnit tests, which behind the scenes parse the Python sources using a Python application, where the two applications communicate via TCP sockets (using the LST remoting protocol). In the setup described here it is at the time of writing important that the GitHub repos are cloned in a organization/repo structure.

1. Clone both moderneinc/rewrite-remote and openrewrite/rewrite-python (here we are assuming ~/git to be the parent directory)

   mkdir -p ~/git/moderneinc && gh repo clone moderneinc/rewrite-remote ~/git/moderneinc/rewrite-remote
   mkdir -p ~/git/openrewrite && gh repo clone openrewrite/rewrite-python ~/git/openrewrite/rewrite-python

2. Make sure Python 3.12 and Uv are installed

   brew install uv
   uv install python

3. Create a Python virtual environment (here we are going to use ~/.venv but any directory works) and activate it

   un sync --all-extras
   source ~/.venv/bin/activate

4. Switch to moderneinc/rewrite-remote/python and install all dependencies using Uv

   cd ~/git/moderneinc/rewrite-remote/python/rewrite-remote-test
   uv build

5. Open ~/git/openrewrite/rewrite-python/rewrite in IDEA (or PyCharm)

   idea ~/git/openrewrite/rewrite-python/rewrite

6. Make sure that the Python plugin is installed and also that the interpreter from the created venv is configured and used
7. Create a new run configuration which runs the Python module rewrite_remote.server (typically in debug mode)
8. Now open ~/git/openrewrite/rewrite-python in a second IDEA workspace and run the JUnit tests from there

Resources

• Python Builtins, which are sometimes used to desugar syntax.
• Python Magic Methods (aka "dunders"), also used for desugaring.