[Python-Dev] cpython (3.2): remove unused import (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Mon Feb 6 18:57:38 CET 2012

On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 19:53, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:

Am 06.02.2012 01:39, schrieb Brett Cannon: > I'm going to assume pylint or pyflakes would throw too many warnings on > the stdlib, but would it be worth someone's time to write a simple > unused import checker to run over the stdlib on occasion? I bet even one > that did nothing more than a regex search for matched import statements > would be good enough.

Zope 3 has an import checker that uses the compiler package and AST tree to check for unused imports. It seems like a better approach than a simple regex search.

http://svn.zope.org/Zope3/trunk/utilities/importchecker.py?rev=25177&view=auto The importorder tool uses the tokenizer module to order import statements. http://svn.zope.org/Zope3/trunk/utilities/importorder.py?rev=25177&view=auto Both are written by Jim Fulton.

Ah, but does it run against Python 3? If so then this is something to suggest on python-mentor for someone to get their feet wet for contributing. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20120206/f6ce39eb/attachment.html>

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