[ZODB-Dev] importchecker and the zodb

[Martijn Faassen]

Hi there,

I have a tool called importchecker which can quite reliably detect 
unused imports in large Python packages. It's been used successfully 
against Zope 3.

http://www.zope.org/Members/faassen/importchecker

When I run it against Zope 3, I notice that the ZODB code seems to 
contain quite a few unused imports as well. I've however refrained in 
the past from removing these unused imports from ZODB code.

Do I have permission to run the tool over ZODB as well and remove unused 
imports? Of course I'll be running the tests and the like before 
checking in.

Should I run it in the ZODB tree or is it okay to run it in the Zope 3 
tree -- are these now the same trees in CVS?

Alternatively of course you can download the tool and run it yourself. 
It's quite simple to use, and if you use emacs putting the output in a 
buffer and using 'compilation-mode' will point you to the right files 
automatically.

Regards,

Martijn