Setting up Eglot for Python

I'd like to try using Eglot for Python coding. Can anyone advise me how to do a basic setup, preferably using use-package? Many thanks.

What have you tried so far?

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Thank you!

Basic setup: 1. Install one of the supported Python [language servers](https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot#connecting-to-a-server) on your system. 2. Do one of the following: (a) Compile the latest development version of Emacs from the master branch, since it includes all the necessary package versions as built-ins. Or (b), Install the following packages from Elpa using your favorite package manager: eglot flymake eldoc xref project. 3. Open a Python file that you'd like to work on. 4. Type "M-x eglot" and press <enter>. If you want Eglot to start automatically whenever you open a python file, then add `eglot-ensure` to `python-mode-hook`. You can do that using the customize system, or (IIRC) using use-package's `:hook` keyword. I won't try to remember how it's done with use-package, but here is how it looks in regular elisp that you can copy and paste to your config: (add-hook 'python-mode-hook 'eglot-ensure) Note that the call to `add-hook` works even if called before `python-mode-hook` has been defined, which is nice.

You're welcome!

That's really helpful - thanks! I've used lsp-mode before but found that a bit buggy so I've got a python language server already and I'm using Emacs 28.1 with pretty much all those packages apart from Eglot. I'll give that a go. Thanks again.

For Python specifically I feel like the hardest part is picking the language server.

After reading that article about vscode and .NET yesterday, I feel like I'd rather avoid the Microsoft one(s) (pyright, and I think there's one more). That leaves pylsp and jedi-language-server. I've used each of them a little bit, but not enough to notice a difference.

I've just followed your instructions and using the python lsp server that comes with pip install it all seems to work perfectly. Thank you.

This snippet is what I'm using to configure eglot. The thing I found to be the more difficult is to make pyls find the project virtualenv/dependancies, for that I use https://github.com/cybniv/poetry.el with the minor mode `poetry-tracking-mode`. Hopefully it will help you. (use-package eglot :ensure t :config (add-to-list 'eglot-server-programs '(python-mode . ("pylsp"))) (setq-default eglot-workspace-configuration '((:pylsp . (:configurationSources ["flake8"] :plugins (:pycodestyle (:enabled nil) :mccabe (:enabled nil) :flake8 (:enabled t)))))) :hook ((python-mode . eglot-ensure)))

That's very helpful - thank you!