unbox 0.0.18

Finding imports in code

unbox

Finding imports in code

To install: pip install unbox

What's here

Lots of little goodies to help you analyze the imports of your, or others' code.

A dict-like interface

The base of unbox is just the dol interface to findimports, which then allows us to offer a bunch of functionalities easily.

Say you wanted to know what dol was made of. The dol way of doing this is to make a Mapping (i.e. a key-value dict-like interface), and then do what you do with dicts...

>>> import dol
>>> import unbox
>>> s = unbox.ModuleNamesImportedByModule(dol)  # make a store containing the modules of the `dol` package
>>> # Now wee how you can do things you do with dicts
>>> len(s)
15
>>> list(s)
['dol.__init__',
 'dol.appendable',
 'dol.base',
 'dol.caching',
 'dol.core',
 'dol.dig',
 'dol.errors',
 'dol.filesys',
 'dol.mixins',
 'dol.naming',
 'dol.paths',
 'dol.signatures',
 'dol.sources',
 'dol.trans',
 'dol.util']
>>> 'dol.appendable' in s
>>> # The values of `s` are sets of modules imported by a module.
>>> s['dol.appendable']  # what does dol.appendable import?
{'collections.abc', 'dol.trans', 'time', 'types', 'typing'}

Check out ModulesImportedByModule also, which gives you a Mapping with module objects as keys, and findimports.ImportInfo instances as values.

imports_for

As an example of what you can do with this set up, have a look at imports_for. Or don't have a look; just use it, since it's quite useful.

from unbox import imports_for 
import wave
assert imports_for(wave) == {'warnings', 'builtins', 'sys', 'audioop', 'chunk', 'struct', 'collections'}

At it's base, imports_for gives you a generator of import names. With the post argument (defaulted to set) you can specify a callable that can produce the output you want; whether you want to filter the items, count them, order them, etc.

We curried a few common ones for you, for your convenience:

from unbox import imports_for
imports_for.counter  # imported names and their counts
imports_for.most_common  # imported names and their counts, ordered by most common
imports_for.first_level  # set for imported first level names (e.g. 'os' instead of 'os.path.etc.)
imports_for.first_level_count  # count of imported first level names (e.g. 'os' instead of 'os.path.etc.)
imports_for.third_party  # imported (first level) names that are not builtin names (most probably third party packages)"

Collections of python names

Check out the contents of these collections:

from unbox import (
    builtin_module_names,
    scanned_standard_lib_names,
    all_accessible_modules,
    all_accessible_pkg_names,
    all_accessible_non_pkg_module_names,
    builtin_obj_names,
    python_names
)

For example, builtin_module_names will be a set of names that are documented and importable on your system.

The scanned_standard_lib_names set is similar, but the names are obtained by scanning the local standard library file names -- so include things like easter eggs (this, antigravity).

all_accessible_modules will be the list of all modules accessible in your python path.

And so on...