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Regarding auto-import feature and datetime #540

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Explanation

This is a limitation of Rope: By default, it uses static analysis of Python source code to find out which names are available for import, but this can't work for C extension modules which don't have any Python source code.

Python's datetime module imports its actual contents from a C extension module named _datetime, so Rope can't find out about them using this default approach.

How to fix

Rope can be configured to introspect specific extension modules by actually executing them using the extension_modules option.

So to fix this, you can either add this to your project's .ropeproject/config.py file:

def set_prefs(prefs):
  prefs["extension_modules"] = ["_datetime"]

or this to …

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