Mark Summerfield wrote: > Suppose I have a project with an application .py file and various module > .py files all in the same directory, and after lots of refactoring and > other changes the modules contain lots of unused stuff. Is there a lint > tool that will spot the unused things so that I can get rid of them? > > I've tried flake and pylint but neither seem to help.
I often "find" unused code with coverage.py. However, it cannot detect statements that are executed but have no effect, and thus will report only A.z() and func() in the example below. > Here's the smallest example I can think of: > > # app.py > import Mod > a = Mod.A() > print(a.quack()) > > # Mod.py > class A: # Used in app.py > def __init__(self): > self.x = "hello" # Used in quack() which is used in app.py > self.y = 7 # Unused > @property > def z(self): # Unused > return 4.5 > def quack(self): # Used in app.py > return self.x > class B: # Unused > pass > CONST = 999 # Unused > def func(): # Unused > pass > > Thanks. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
