Static code analysis in Python?

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Which helpful static code analysis can you recommend for Python. I believe they are useful for refactoring code. I know

Are there static call analyzers? If I wanted to program a custom one, which would be the easiest way?

What other type of static code checks can you think of? Or maybe even some Python magic like ABCs?

EDIT: I've found that either using http://docs.python.org/3.3/library/ast.html or maybe even http://www.astroid.org/ can be used to program some custom parser. Then one can use graphviz to visualize or even PlantUML for UML graphs.

This seems to be about 5 different questions. You may want to split it up. — Gareth Latty, Apr 23 '12 at 11:13

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:46

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check out pychecker and pyflakes. There was a famous question to discuss the pylint-pychecker-or-pyflakes

edited May 23 '17 at 11:46

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answered Nov 20 '13 at 02:07

zhutoulala

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 17 '15 at 22:26

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this is a very powerful python type inferencer https://github.com/yinwang0/pysonar2

it has strong bug check ability but it's not exposed through its interface, but I assume you could do many awesome checks based on it.

edited Jan 17 '15 at 22:26

BigGameHunter

answered Jan 15 '15 at 01:23

tazdingo

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 24 '12 at 15:11

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Not exactly "static code analyzer" but even a bit more:

answered Apr 24 '12 at 15:11

Ecir Hana

score 0 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

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Pysonar2 is a very nice implementation of abstract interpretation to type inference Python projects. My answer to another similar question is here.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

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answered Jan 16 '15 at 05:55

Wei Chen

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