2021-05-26
This is the third installment of what has turned into an unofficial series of posts on using Emacs for Python development (first and second posts). I probably shouldn't expect it to be the last.
At this point I use Eglot and lsp-mode pretty interchangeably. I just like both of them and it's fun to mix it up. I also continue to use pyenv for managing python versions and virtual environments and pyvenv for handling them inside of Emacs.
What has triggered writing a new post is the development of a new
Python language server:
python-lsp-server
(or pylsp). The old Palantir python-language-server (pyls)
project is no longer maintained. Both Eglot and lsp-mode now support
pylsp (lsp-mode
PR and Eglot
commit).
Beyond pylsp, there are a number of other Python language servers
that I've played around with: