[ZODB-Dev] importchecker and the zodb

[Martijn Faassen]

Christian Robottom Reis wrote:

>On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 02:12:12PM -0500, Jeremy Hylton wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>I use pychecker every once in a while when I run the ZODB tests, and I
>>remove all the unused imports it finds.  So maybe your checker does a
>>better job of finding them.
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>It must. I ran it against a number of applications here and I found
>hundreds (literally) of unused imports that pychecker never complained
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>about. Looks like a great tool, Martijn.
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Thanks! Beware for false positives though; doctests relying on an import 
in the module, and eval of course, for instance. I also got a bug report 
where code assigned to an attribute of a module that wasn't found.

Mostly it seems to be accurate enough though.

Regards,

Martijn