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Refactor errors with Rope

See original GitHub issue

Environment data

VS Code version: Version 1.19.1 (1.19.1) Python Extension version: 0.9.1 Python Version: 3.6.3 (conda-forge) OS and version: macOS 10.12.6

Actual behavior

While trying to refactor, an error pops up and a file list with a lot of files that are not part of the project

Expected behavior

Refactor executes.

Steps to reproduce:

git clone git@github.com:michaelaye/planet4.git
find planet4/markings.py in that repo
find data_root variable in line 26
Use F2 to start refactor, while cursor is on data_root
Type ‘DATA_ROOT’ to replace with upper case and press RETURN
Some calculation happens, after a few seconds, an error pops up:

Refactor failed. expected string or bytes-like object

Logs

Output from Python output panel

No panel is popping up

Output from Console window (Help->Developer Tools menu)

Refactor failed. expected string or bytes-like object
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Created 6 years ago
Reactions:10
Comments:26 (7 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

19reactions

mawrightcommented, Aug 16, 2018

@brettcannon FYI I think I figured out why you were unable to reproduce this bug earlier and why your error message in your comment on Mar 29 is different from the above users’. As noted in the bug report I just filed on rope’s issue page, the error the OP experienced occurs in rope only if your environment has numpydoc installed.

5reactions

marknormanreadcommented, Dec 18, 2018

Uninstalling numpydoc with “pip uninstall numpydoc” worked for me immediately; didn’t even need to re-launch anything.

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