On Jun 10, 3:03 pm, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Patrick Bouffard wrote: > > I have a fairly large library of Python code, where 'from package import *' > > is > > used rather liberally, and it's not uncommon for more than one of these to > > appear in any given module. What I'd like to be able to do is to clean my > > code > > up a bit and turn each of the 'from package import *' statements into 'from > > package import thing_1, thing_2, ..., thing_n', where only thing_i's that > > are > > actually _used_ in the module are imported. In this way I hope to make my > > code a > > bit more understandable by future civilizations. :) (it needs all the help > > it > > can get!) > > > Does anyone know of a package/recipe/whatever that does something like this > > automatically, even in limited cases? Ideally it should be accomplished > > only by > > looking at the source, or at most, importing the module. > > I don't know of any automatic tools. I usually comment out those import > statements and use pyflakes to show me the undefined names. > > -- > Robert Kern > > "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma > that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it > had > an underlying truth." > -- Umberto Eco
Thanks, I didn't know about pyflakes. What you describe sounds like a great place to start, I'll give it a go. -Pat -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
