[ZODB-Dev] importchecker and the zodb

[Martijn Faassen]

Jeremy Hylton wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 14:05, Martijn Faassen wrote:
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>>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.
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>>http://www.zope.org/Members/faassen/importchecker
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>How does it work?  I'm curious about how it differs from pychecker,
>which also complains about the same thing.  Is it as static checker?  Or
>does it depend on code that uses the imported module/name being
>executed.
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It's a static checker, using the compiler module.

http://cvs.infrae.com/tools/importchecker/importchecker.py

>>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?
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>I think they should be the same, but I'm not sure if Zope3 includes all
>the modules that ZODB includes, e.g. zdaemon, ZopeUndo, etc.
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I'll run it against the ZODB CVS module then to be sure.

Regards,

Martijn