codescholar 0.2.0

A package and command-line utility to check code quality and compliance with best practices.

This is a package and command-line utility to check code quality and compliance with best practices.

Installation

1. Clone or download the source code:

   git clone https://github.com/SS-NES/codescholar.git

2. Go to the root directory:

   cd codescholar/

3. Compile and install using pip:

   pip install .

CLI Usage

Usage: codescholar [OPTIONS] PATH

  Scans the code base, where PATH is the path or URL address of the code base.

Options:
  --skip-analyser [change_log|citation|code_markdown|code_python|conduct|contributing|dependency_python|documentation|git|jupyter_notebook|license|notice|packaging_python|testing_python]
                                  List of analysers to skip.
  --skip-aggregator [citation|code|community|documentation|license|packaging|repository|testing|version_control|metadata]
                                  List of aggregators to skip.
  --skip-type [citation|code|community|dependency|documentation|license|metadata|packaging|publishing|repository|testing|version_control]
                                  List of processor types to skip.
  -r, --reference FILENAME        Path of the reference metadata for
                                  comparison (e.g. SMP).
  -b, --branch TEXT               Branch or tag of the remote code repository.
  -t, --path-type [zip|tar|tgz|tar.gz|git]
                                  Type of the file located at the path.
  -m, --metadata FILENAME         Path to store the metadata extracted from
                                  the code base.
  -o, --output PATH               Path to store the analysis output.
  -f, --format [plain|html|json|yaml|markdown|rst|rtf|docx]
                                  Output format.  [default: rst]
  -p, --plain                     Enable plain output.
  -l, --message-level INTEGER RANGE
                                  Message level.  [default: 1; 1<=x<=5]
  -d, --debug                     Enable debug mode.
  -v, --version                   Show the version and exit.
  -h, --help                      Show this message and exit.

Examples

Analyse the code in the current working directory and display the report in the terminal:

codescholar .

Analyse the code repository of Code Scholar and display the report in the terminal:

codescholar https://github.com/SS-NES/codescholar

Analyse the code repository of Code Scholar and save the report as report.docx:

codescholar https://github.com/SS-NES/codescholar --format docx --output report.docx

Package Usage

Analyse the code in the current working directory and display the report in the terminal:

import codescholar

# Generate analysis report
report = codescholar.analyse('.')

# Get report output as Markdown
out = report.output(format=codescholar.report.OutputType.MARKDOWN)

# Display output
print(out)

Acknowledgements

This software was developed as part of the TDCC-NES Bottleneck Project “Best Practices for Sustainable Software” funded by the Thematic Digital Competence Centre (TDCC) for the Natural & Engineering Sciences (NES).