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I have created a new deadcode Python package for detecting globally unused Python code (pypi.org)

submitted 1 year ago by niekas to c/python

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Sometimes unused class or function manages to slip into code base. Static code checkers like ruff, flake8 does not have rules for detecting such globally unused code.

I tried using vulture, but it has too many false positives to have it as part of CI/CD pipeline.

I have tried to implement my own, more reliable check for global deadcode detection.

Please let me know what you think about it.

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[–] jnovinger 2 points 1 year ago

Just coming back around on the count thing, in order to use wc -l, you need to ensure that stderr is piped too. Like:

deadcode . --exclude=*/tests,conftest.py --ignore-names-in-files=core/settings.py 2>&1 | wc -l

I ran this against a ~8 month old Django project and it turned up 11 unused names, of which 5 were expected and can be whitelisted. Nice!