Re: warning for unused packages/modules/objects

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  • Robert Kern

    Re: warning for unused packages/modules/objects

    Daniel Fetchinson wrote:
    How difficult would it be to implement a system in python that would
    warn if there are unnecessarily imported packages/modules/objects in
    the code? I mean that when developing some code one frequently imports
    stuff, deletes the import, changes stuff here and there, imports other
    stuff, later decides to change things and consequently delete the line
    with the import, etc, etc. As a result there can stay
    packages/modules/objects that are in the end not used. It would be
    great if python would issue a warning once the program finishes.
    Style-checkers will help with this. pylint, pychecker, and pyflakes are all good
    tools. I tend to use pyflakes most often. It's small and doesn't do as much as
    the others, but it does unused imports and undefined name checks much faster
    than the others. I can run it compulsively on my file.

    --
    Robert Kern

    "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
    that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
    an underlying truth."
    -- Umberto Eco

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