Re: ELPA submission: python-import

[Richard Stallman]

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  > FWIW, I don't find those to be good reasons to keep the code separate.
  > It's quite common for some parts of the functionality of a major modes
  > to be less thorough (e.g. depend on the presence of some unusual tool,
  > or depend on specific conventions, ...): it's not ideal, but it's better
  > than nothing, and also makes it "obvious" where to improve the code.
  > IOW it can encourage further improvements.

I don't use Python, and I don't know what isort or pyflakes do,
but if they are not extremely complicated we could write Lisp code
to do the job this facility needs.

Putting this feature in a separate package would have two disadvantages:
* It would make Emacs more complex.
* It would discourage users from finding out about the feature.

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