7.1.1.vulture

• 1.Introduction

  • Vulture is a tool to find unused code, dead code in Python program

    • 1.It's useful for cleaning up and finding errors in large code bases.

    • 2.Find untested code on library and test suite.

  • How does it work?

    • Vulture uses the ast module to build abstract syntax trees for all given files

    • While traversing all syntax trees it records the names of defined and used objects

• 2.Installation

    $ pip install vulture  # from PyPI

• 3.Getting Started

  • For single file:

      $ vulture myscript.py
      $ vulture myscript.py --min-confidence 100  # Only report 100% dead code.

  • For large project:

      $ vulture myscript.py mypackage/

  • example:

• 4.Reference

  • https://pypi.python.org/pypi/vulture