Honest question: I haven't used AI much. Are there any AIs or IDEs that can reliably rename a variable across all instances in a medium sized Python project? I don't mean easy stuff that an editor can do (e.g. rename QQQ in all instances and get lucky that there are no conflicts). I mean be able to differentiate between local and/or library variables so it doesn't change them, only the correct versions.

[–] lapping6596@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I use pycharm for this and in general it does a great job. At work we've got some massive repos and it'll handle it fine.

The "find" tab shows where it'll make changes and you can click "don't change anything in this directory"

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, all of JetBrains' tools handle project-wide renames practically perfectly, even in weirder things like Angular projects where templates may reference variables.

[–] AnotherPenguin@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Just be carerul when refactoring variable names in doc comments, I've seen some weird stuff happen there

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