"task" is not exported from module "invoke"

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#1,013 opened on Nov 12, 2024 2 comments 1 reaction 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 2/5
Estimated time: 1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness: 42/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Mostly clear
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: python
Domain: developer-experience

Research direction

Start by inspecting the main init.py export surface and compare the proposed change with the discussion in issue 814. Verify that from invoke import task is recognized by Pylance without breaking the existing public imports; the issue is done when the warning is resolved and the package's exports remain correct.

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Description

I am using vscode. I get a pylance warning:
"task" is not exported from module "invoke"

This is from this line:
from invoke import task

It all works, but is a little annoying.

I'm not sure the sophisticated way to do it in a library, but you could add a complete __all__= in your main __init__.py.

For instace:

# At bottom of __init__.py

__all__ = (
    "__version_info__",
    "__version__",
    "AmbiguousEnvVar",
    "Argument",
    "AuthFailure",
    "Call",
    "Collection",
    "CollectionNotFound",
    "CommandTimedOut",
    "Config",
    "Context",
    "Exit",
    "Executor",
    "FailingResponder",
    "Failure",
    "FilesystemLoader",
    "Local",
    "MockContext",
    "ParseError",
    "Parser",
    "ParserContext",
    "ParseResult",
    "PlatformError",
    "Program",
    "Promise",
    "pty_size",
    "Responder",
    "ResponseNotAccepted",
    "Result",
    "Runner",
    "run",
    "StreamWatcher",
    "SubprocessPipeError",
    "sudo",
    "task",
    "Task",
    "call",
    "ThreadException",
    "UncastableEnvVar",
    "UnexpectedExit",
    "UnknownFileType",
    "UnpicklableConfigMember",
    "WatcherError",
)

This is also covered in https://github.com/pyinvoke/invoke/issues/814, but I think the solution mentioned there is not ideal.

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