python-rope
Rename doesn't work for debug notation inside f-strings
Rope fails to rename inside f-strings when followed by equal sign for debugging. See https://realpython.com/lessons/simpler-debugging-f-strings/ And https://bugs.python.org/issue36817
Rope version: 0.17.0 Python version: 3.8.2
Example:
myvar = 6
print(f"{myvar}") # works
print(f"{myvar=}") # does not work
print(f"{myvar = }") # does not work
This is caused by a set of bugs in the standard library's ast module related to f-string, which doesn't produce correct offsets. Ref: https://bugs.python.org/issue39564, https://bugs.python.org/issue37458, https://bugs.python.org/issue35212,
Background: The current version of CPython doesn't fill col_offset correctly because internally f-string are not really part of the main parser's grammar, but rather is parsed in a second pass of a "handwritten f-string parser" that doesn't keep track of those information.
Until that bug is fixed in ast, it likely wouldn't really be possible to fix this in Rope, unless we write our own f-string parser, maybe as some sort of simple, regex-based parser that recognizes some of the most common f-string constructions.
