https://github.com/asottile/dead

dead simple python dead code detection
https://github.com/asottile/dead

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dead simple python dead code detection

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/asottile/dead
• Owner: asottile
• License: mit
• Created: 2019-01-08T04:16:14.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-10-29T01:22:30.000Z (about 1 month ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-29T16:08:17.817Z (13 days ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 239 KB
• Stars: 340
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 11
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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dead

====

dead simple python dead code detection

## installation

```bash

pip install dead

```

## cli

Consult the help for the latest usage:

```console

$ dead --help

usage: dead [-h] [--files FILES] [--exclude EXCLUDE] [--tests TESTS]

optional arguments:

  -h, --help         show this help message and exit

  --files FILES      regex for file inclusion, default: ''

  --exclude EXCLUDE  regex for file exclusion, default '^$'

  --tests TESTS      regex to mark files as tests, default

                     '(^|/)(tests?|testing)/'

```

run the `dead` utility from the root of a git repository.

## as a pre-commit hook

See [pre-commit](https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit) for instructions

Sample `.pre-commit-config.yaml`:

```yaml

-   repo: https://github.com/asottile/dead

    rev: v1.5.2

    hooks:

    -   id: dead

```

### how it works

1. find all files in a repository using `git ls-files` and filtering:

    - only include files matched by the `--files` regex

    - exclude files matched by the `--exclude` regex

    - only include files identified as `python` by

      [`identify`](https://github.com/chriskuehl/identify)

    - classify test files by the `--tests` regex

1. ast parse each file

    - search for definitions and references

1. report things which do not have references

### false positives

I wrote this in ~15 minutes on an airplane, it's far from perfect but often

finds things.  Here's a few things it's not good at:

- functions which implement an interface are often marked as unused

- metaclass magic is often marked as unused (enums, model classes, etc.)

### suppressing `dead`

The `# dead: disable` comment will tell `dead` to ignore

any line which has reportedly dead code.

### is this project dead?

_maybe._