vulture - Find dead code
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vulture finds unused classes, functions and variables in your code.
This helps you cleanup and find errors in your programs. If you run it
on both your library and test suite you can find untested code.

Due to Python's dynamic nature it is impossible to find all dead code
for a static code analyzer like vulture, because it ignores scopes and
scans only token names. Additionally, some dynamic items that are not
explicitly called in the code may be incorrectly reported as dead code.


Features
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* Fast: Uses static code analysis
* Lightweight: Only one module
* Tested: Comes with a test suite and tests itself
* Complements *pyflakes* and has the same output syntax
* Supports Python 2.6, 2.7 and 3.x


Installation
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::

  $ pip install -U vulture


Usage
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::

  $ vulture --help

After you have found and deleted dead code, run vulture again, because
it may discover more dead code. You can list false-positives (used code
that is marked as unused) in a python module and add it to the list of
scanned paths (see ``whitelist.py``).


Similar programs
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* vulture can be used together with *pyflakes*
* The *coverage* module can find unused code more reliably, but requires
  all branches of the code to actually be run.


Feedback
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Your feedback is more than welcome. Write emails to jendrikseipp@web.de
or post bugs and feature or pull requests on bitbucket:

https://bitbucket.org/jendrikseipp/vulture/issues


Source download
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The source code is available on bitbucket. Fork away!

https://bitbucket.org/jendrikseipp/vulture
