findimports 1.4.1

Python module import analysis tool

FindImports

FindImports extracts Python module dependencies by parsing source files. It can report names that are imported but not used, and it can generate module import graphs in ASCII or graphviz formats.

A distinguishing feature of findimports used to be that it could parse doctest code inside docstrings.

Note that not all cases are handled correctly, especially if you use ‘import foo.bar.baz’.

If you need to find unused imports in your codebase, I recommend Pyflakes instead – it’s better maintained and more reliable. For import graphs consider snakefood.

Misc

Home page: https://github.com/mgedmin/findimports

Old project page: https://launchpad.net/findimports

Licence: GPL v2 or later (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html)

Changes

1.4.1 (2016-09-28)

• Replace getopt with optparse. This changes the --help message as a side effect (#4).

1.4.0 (2015-06-04)

• Python 3 support (3.3 and newer).
• Use ast instead of compiler (#1).

1.3.2 (2015-04-13)

• Fix “cannot find datetime” on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (#3).
• 100% test coverage.

1.3.1 (2014-04-16)

• Added support for relative imports (e.g. from .. import foo).

1.3.0 (2013-04-10)

• Moved to Github.
• Drop Python 2.4 and 2.5 support.
• Handle unicode docstrings with doctests.

1.2.14 (2012-02-12)

• Recognize builtin modules using sys.builtin_module_names. Fixes https://bugs.launchpad.net/findimports/+bug/880989.

1.2.13 (2011-04-18)

• Suppress “not a zipfile” warnings about *.egg-info files listed in sys.path.

1.2.12 (2011-04-08)

• Handle zipfile errors when there are plain files that are not zip files on sys.path.

1.2.11 (2011-03-30)

• Fix ‘could not find cPickle’ errors on Python 2.6 and newer.

1.2.10 (2010-02-05)

• Ignore ‘from __future__ import …’.

1.2.9 (2009-07-07)

• Fixed broken and uninstallable source distribution by adding a MANIFEST.in.

1.2.8 (2009-07-07)

• Is able to find modules inside zip files (e.g. eggs).
• Fixed deprecation warning on Python 2.6.