Precise cross-repo support for Python

Created by: macraig

Problem to solve

Precise cross-repository support for Python isn't available.

Python is the top navigated language at customers (77 customers using it, total ARR being 10.9M) and is in the top 5 most used in the market (Stack overflow survey 2021). It's also Code intel's Top product gap with 4M total ARR

Measure of success

Python indexer supports cross-repository navigation.

Solution summary

Expand Python indexer's features.

Artifacts: Python indexer: https://github.com/sourcegraph/pyright

What specific customers are we iterating on the problem and solution with?

• https://github.com/sourcegraph/accounts/issues/537
• https://github.com/sourcegraph/accounts/issues/578
• https://github.com/sourcegraph/accounts/issues/567
• https://github.com/sourcegraph/accounts/issues/8329
• https://github.com/sourcegraph/accounts/issues/575
• https://github.com/sourcegraph/accounts/issues/7957
• https://github.com/sourcegraph/accounts/issues/7485
• https://github.com/sourcegraph/accounts/issues/3571
• https://github.com/sourcegraph/accounts/issues/3533
• https://github.com/sourcegraph/accounts/issues/2098

Impact on use cases

Onboarding & velocity, fixing vulnerabilities, incident response, code reuse

Delivery plan

• TO DO