scollazo/pyorphan

PyOrphan show suggestion of unused code in your python project.

PyOrphan

PyOrphan suggest unused code in your python project as target to be removed.

Be careful, take in consideration that python is a dynamic language, and this tool can show false positives.

We suggest use pyorphan as pylint complement.

Installation

• Clone project:

  git clone git@github.com:estevopaz/pyorphan.git
  

• System installation (as root):

  cd pyorphan
  ./setup.py install
  

  Note: If you want modify code use:

  ./setup.py develop
  

Usage

usage: pyorphan [-h] project_path [file_path]

Orphan python code checker.

positional arguments:
  project_path  Project path
  file_path     Tarjet file if required

optional arguments:
  -h, --help    show this help message and exit

Notes

This is a little but useful project to imporove code quality.

Any kind of contribution to the project will be welcome.

TODO

• Prevent false positives for Flask routes:

  @APP.route('/login', methods=('GET', 'POST'))
  

• Support --except parameter.

• Look for unused global variables (not supported by pylint).

• Allow --context like grep.

• Support for GNU/Linux Debian package.