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I'm using emacs with company-mode and I'd like the 'private' methods (method that start with underline) to be shown last, since they are kind of useless for imported libraries in python. See the image:
underline methods

I'd like it to be sorted like this:
desired way

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    Have you looked into company-transformers? Looks like what you want could be achieved by setting this to a function of your own. On the other hand, this is something more people should want, so there's likely an easier way. – Meaningful Username May 13 '15 at 21:22
  • Well I don't know elisp but I spent an hour hacking around anaconda functions and I managed to remove the underline methods. When I have the time I'll try to push them at the end of the list. I'll also take a look at this function you mentioned and share the code once it's ready. Thanks – Jesse May 13 '15 at 22:11
  • @MeaningfulUsername done with company-transformers. Thanks again! – Jesse May 14 '15 at 13:22
  • No problems, just happened to stumble over that variable some days ago. – Meaningful Username May 14 '15 at 13:37
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I've managed to do it myself. Here's the code

(defun company-transform-python (candidates)
  (let ((deleted))
    (mapcar #'(lambda (c)
        (if (or (string-prefix-p "_" c) (string-prefix-p "._" c))
            (progn
              (add-to-list 'deleted c)
              (setq candidates (delete c candidates)))))
        candidates) 
    (append candidates (nreverse deleted))))


(defun my-python-conf()
  (setq-local company-transformers
          (append company-transformers '(company-transform-python))))

(add-hook 'python-mode-hook 'my-python-conf)

It's kind of my first contact more deeply with elisp, so please excuse the bad code.

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    You might want to consider setq-local in my-python-config. In that way it will only affect python buffers. In this way I believe it will overwrite the global company-transformers. You might want to add it to the list too instead of disregarding the previous value. Just some thoughts :). – Meaningful Username May 14 '15 at 13:36
  • @MeaningfulUsername done :) – Jesse May 14 '15 at 13:58
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    The built-in string-prefix-p does what your string/starts-with does. – erikstokes May 15 '15 at 1:08
  • @erikstokes nice! I updated the code. Thanks – Jesse May 15 '15 at 13:26
  • You can remove the (setq deleted '()) since let variables are initialized to nil by default (and nil is identical to '()) – alexmurray May 22 '15 at 0:15
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The following has worked well for me:

(defun python--private-lessp (x y)
  (cond
   ((and (string-prefix-p "_" x)
         (not (string-prefix-p "_" y))) nil)
   ((and (string-prefix-p "_" y)
         (not (string-prefix-p "_" x))) t)
   (t (string-lessp x y))))

(defun company-transform-python (candidates)
  "De-prioritize internal/private Python variables (e.g. 
  'var._blah') in completion list ordering.

  See `company-transformers'."
  (seq-sort-by 'company-strip-prefix 'python--private-lessp
               candidates))

(add-hook 'python-mode-hook 'company-transform-python)
(add-hook 'inferior-python-mode-hook 'company-transform-python)
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