uzpy 1.2.2

A tool to track where Python constructs are used and update docstrings

uzpy

A production-ready Python tool that automatically analyzes code usage patterns and updates docstrings with "Used in:" documentation.

uzpy scans Python codebases to find where each function, class, and method is used, then automatically updates their docstrings with comprehensive usage information. This helps developers understand code dependencies and maintain better documentation.

✨ Features

• 🔍 Smart Analysis: Uses Tree-sitter for fast, error-resilient Python parsing
• 🎯 Accurate References: Combines Rope and Jedi for comprehensive usage detection
• 📝 Safe Modifications: Preserves code formatting using LibCST with lossless editing
• 🛡️ Error Recovery: Graceful handling of syntax errors and edge cases

🚀 Installation

# Install dependencies with uv (recommended)
uv venv && source .venv/bin/activate
uv pip install -e .

# Or with pip
pip install tree-sitter tree-sitter-python rope jedi libcst fire rich loguru pathspec
pip install -e .

📖 Quick Start

# Analyze and update docstrings in a project
python -m uzpy -e src/myproject/

# Preview changes without modification  
python -m uzpy -e src/myproject/ --dry-run --verbose

# Analyze a single file
python -m uzpy -e src/myproject/module.py --dry-run

# Get help
python -m uzpy --help

💡 Usage Examples

Basic Analysis

# Analyze and update docstrings in a project directory
python -m uzpy -e src/myproject/

# Analyze a single file
python -m uzpy -e src/myproject/utils.py

Preview Mode

# See what would change without modifying files
python -m uzpy -e src/myproject/ --dry-run --verbose

# Get detailed analysis information
python -m uzpy -e src/myproject/ --dry-run --verbose

Real-World Examples

# Analyze your entire src directory
python -m uzpy -e src/ --verbose

# Check a specific module before refactoring
python -m uzpy -e src/core/database.py --dry-run

# Update documentation for API modules
python -m uzpy -e src/api/ --verbose

🔧 How It Works

uzpy uses a sophisticated four-phase pipeline:

1. 🔍 Discovery Phase: Finds all Python files while respecting gitignore patterns
2. 📊 Parsing Phase: Uses Tree-sitter to extract functions, classes, and methods with their docstrings
3. 🔗 Analysis Phase: Employs a hybrid approach combining Rope and Jedi to find usage patterns
4. 📝 Modification Phase: Uses LibCST to safely update docstrings while preserving formatting

Architecture

┌─────────────────┐    ┌──────────────────┐    ┌─────────────────┐    ┌─────────────────┐
│   File Discovery │───▶│  Tree-sitter     │───▶│  Hybrid Analyzer│───▶│  LibCST Modifier│
│   (gitignore +   │    │  Parser          │    │  (Rope + Jedi)  │    │  (docstring     │
│   pathspec)      │    │  (AST + constructs)│   │  (usage finding)│    │   updates)      │
└─────────────────┘    └──────────────────┘    └─────────────────┘    └─────────────────┘

What Gets Updated

uzpy automatically adds "Used in:" sections to docstrings:

Before:

def calculate_total(items):
    """Calculate the total price of items."""
    return sum(item.price for item in items)

After:

def calculate_total(items):
    """Calculate the total price of items.

    Used in:
    - src/main.py
    - src/billing/invoice.py
    - tests/test_calculations.py"""
    return sum(item.price for item in items)

Example Output

When you run uzpy, you'll see beautiful terminal output like this:

┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ uzpy Configuration     ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ Edit Path              │ src/myproject/     │
│ Reference Path         │ .                  │
│ Dry Run                │ No                 │
│ Verbose                │ Yes                │
└────────────────────────┴────────────────────┘

┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ File Discovery Summary         ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ Edit Files      │ 23  │ utils.py, models.py, ... │
│ Reference Files │ 156 │ main.py, tests.py, ...   │
└─────────────────┴─────┴──────────────────────────┘

┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Construct Parsing Summary        ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ Module   │ 23   │ 12/23 │
│ Class    │ 45   │ 31/45 │
│ Function │ 128  │ 89/128│
│ Method   │ 267  │ 156/267│
│ Total    │ 463  │ 288/463│
└──────────┴──────┴───────┘

🔧 CLI Reference

Main Command

python -m uzpy [OPTIONS]

Options

Option	Short	Description	Default
--edit	-e	Path to analyze and modify	Required
--ref	-r	Reference path to search for usage	Same as edit
--verbose	-v	Enable detailed logging	False
--dry-run		Show changes without modifying files	False
--methods-include		Include method definitions	True
--classes-include		Include class definitions	True
--functions-include		Include function definitions	True
--exclude-patterns	Comma-separated glob patterns to exclude	None

🛠️ Development

uzpy is built with modern Python practices and comprehensive testing.

Setup Development Environment

# Clone the repository  
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/uzpy.git
cd uzpy

# Setup with uv (recommended)
uv venv && source .venv/bin/activate
uv pip install -e .

# Or with pip
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: venv\Scripts\activate
pip install -e .

Development Workflow

# Run tests
python -m pytest

# Lint and format code
ruff check --fix
ruff format

# Full development pipeline (from CLAUDE.md)
fd -e py -x autoflake {}; fd -e py -x pyupgrade --py311-plus {}; fd -e py -x ruff check --output-format=github --fix --unsafe-fixes {}; fd -e py -x ruff format --respect-gitignore --target-version py311 {}; python -m pytest;

Architecture Overview

uzpy is designed with modularity and extensibility in mind:

• src/uzpy/cli.py - Command-line interface using Fire and Rich
• src/uzpy/discovery.py - File discovery with gitignore support
• src/uzpy/parser/ - Tree-sitter based Python parsing
• src/uzpy/analyzer/ - Hybrid reference analysis (Rope + Jedi)
• src/uzpy/modifier/ - LibCST-based safe code modification

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

🙏 Acknowledgments

• Tree-sitter for fast, error-resilient parsing
• Rope for accurate cross-file analysis
• Jedi for fast symbol resolution
• LibCST for safe code modification
• Rich for beautiful terminal output