Better Tooling

[bagel897]

Could we use and configure the following tools in rope?

1. tox - testing across python versions. Would need to test from 3.6/7 to 3.10/3.11
2. isort - sorting the imports. Would need to configure to use the black profile. Would need to reformat almost all the files
3. pre-commit - use black and isort before commits to prevent us from having to make additional blacken commits.

If approved, I can add these, either as one PR or 3 seperate PRs. The most problematic is isort since it would reformat every file in rope.

[lieryan]

+1 on all these tools.

If there's a mass reformatting, they should be their own separate commit and PR.

[Rowlando13]

So I just did this for a project that I work on. Super big quality of life improvement. You should just be able to copy a lot of our settings. We use black, isort, and precommit. Also, I have a lot of it explained on our contributor page.

project

contributing docs

[mcepl]

Shouldn't this be closed? What’s missing?