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Monitoring tool based on radon
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xenon

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Xenon is a monitoring tool based on `Radon `_.

It monitors your code's complexity.  Ideally, Xenon is run every time you

commit code. Through command line options, you can set various thresholds for

the **complexity** of your code. It will fail (i.e. it will exit with a

non-zero exit code) when any of these requirements is not met.



Installation

------------



With Pip:



.. code-block:: sh



   $ pip install xenon



Or download the source and run the setup file (requires setuptools):



.. code-block:: sh



   $ python setup.py install



Xenon is tested with all versions of Python from **2.7** to **3.6** as well as

**PyPy**.



Usage

-----



Typically you would use Xenon in two scenarios:



1. As a ``git commit`` hook: to make sure that your code never exceeds some

   complexity values.



2. On a **continuous integration** server: as a part of your build, to keep

   under control, as above, your code's complexity. See Xenon's

   `.travis.yml file`_ for an example usage.



The command line

++++++++++++++++



Everything boils down to Xenon's command line usage.

To control which files are analyzed, you use the options ``-e, --exclude`` and

``-i, --ignore``. Both accept a comma-separated list of glob patterns. The

value usually needs quoting at the command line, to prevent the shell from

expanding the pattern (in case there is only one). Every filename is matched

against the *exclude* patterns. Every directory name is matched against the

*ignore* patterns.  If any of the patterns matches, Xenon won't even descend

into them.



The actual threshold values are defined through these options:



* ``-a, --max-average``: Threshold for the *average* complexity (across all the

  codebase).

* ``-m, --max-modules``: Threshold for *modules* complexity.

* ``-b, --max-absolute``: *Absolute* threshold for *block* complexity.



All of these options are inclusive.



An actual example

+++++++++++++++++



.. code-block:: sh



   $ xenon --max-absolute B --max-modules A --max-average A



or, more succinctly:



.. code-block:: sh



   $ xenon -b B -m A -a A



With these options Xenon will exit with a non-zero exit code if any of the

following conditions is met:



* At least one block has a rank higher than ``B`` (i.e. ``C``, ``D``, ``E`` or

  ``F``).

* At least one module has a rank higher than ``A``.

* The average complexity (among all of the analyzed blocks) is ranked with

  ``B`` or higher.



Other resources

---------------



For more information regarding cyclomatic complexity and static analysis in

Python, please refer to Radon's documentation, the project on which Xenon is

based on:



* More on cyclomatic complexity:

  http://radon.readthedocs.org/en/latest/intro.html

* More on Radon's ranking:

  http://radon.readthedocs.org/en/latest/commandline.html#the-cc-command



.. _.travis.yml file: https://github.com/rubik/xenon/blob/master/.travis.yml