Easiest way to get Pythoscope is via setuptools:
$ easy_install pythoscope
You can also download a source package from pythoscope.org or get a copy of a development branch through github:
$ git clone git@github.com:mkwiatkowski/pythoscope.git
To install the package from the source directory do:
$ python setup.py install
You don't need setuptools for this to work, a bare Python will do just fine.
However, if you do have setuptools installed, you may also consider running the whole test suite of Pythoscope:
$ python setup.py test
You can use the tool through a single pythoscope command. To prepare
your project for use with Pythoscope, type:
$ pythoscope --init path/to/your/project/
It's only doing static analysis, and doesn't import your modules or
execute your code in any way, so you're perfectly safe to run it on
anything you want. After that, a directory named .pythoscope will be
created in the current directory. To generate test stubs based on your
project, select files you want to generate tests for:
$ pythoscope path/to/your/project/specific/file.py path/to/your/project/other/*.py
Test files will be saved to your test directory, if you have one, or
into a new tests/ directory otherwise. Test cases are aggregated
into TestCase classes. Currently each production class and each
production function gets its own TestCase class.
Some of the classes and functions are ignored by the generator - all which name begins with an underscore, exception classes, and some others.
Generator itself is configurable to some extent, see:
$ pythoscope --help
for more information on available options.
We put out an elisp script that integrates Pythoscope into Emacs. The file is in the the misc/ directory of the source distribution. You can also look at the file on github. Usage and installation instructions are in the comments at the top of the file.
There is interest in Vim integration and someone is working on it but we have nothing for you right now.
All Pythoscope source code is licensed under an MIT license (see LICENSE file). All files under lib2to3/ are licensed under PSF license. File named imputil.py under bytecode_tracer/ is also licensed under PSF license.