Install reorder-python-imports with Homebrew

Project links

• Homepage
• Package manager page

Commands and aliases

• reorder-python-imports

Project history

Anthony Sottile created reorder-python-imports as a Python source-rewriting tool. The official documentation characterizes it as similar to isort but making greater use of static analysis.

Adoption history

The project is usable as a standalone command and as a pre-commit hook. Its official repository includes hook metadata and a sample .pre-commit-config.yaml entry, making import normalization easy to adopt in repository-wide automated checks.

How it is used

Users pass Python filenames to reorder-python-imports or configure its official pre-commit hook. It separates standard-library, third-party, and first-party imports; places import statements before from imports; splits multi-name from imports; removes duplicates; and can apply version-dependent rewrites. Project roots and src layouts can be supplied through command-line options.

Why package nerds care

The tool occupies a focused niche between import sorting and static source rewriting. Its predictable transformations and pre-commit integration make it useful to maintainers who want standardized imports with minimal formatter configuration.

Timeline

• 2010s: Project established in the asottile Python code-quality tool ecosystem.
• 3.x: Official documentation shows continued standalone and pre-commit-hook usage.

Related projects

• The README explicitly compares the project with isort. It also belongs to the pre-commit ecosystem and complements Python formatters, linters, and source-modernization tools.

Sources

• https://github.com/asottile/reorder-python-imports
• https://github.com/asottile/reorder-python-imports#readme