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Find dead Python code

5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 2 stories, 3 comments · first 2020-06-20 · latest 2026-03-19

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    Vulture: Find Dead (Python) Code
    story by nateb2022 · 2026-03-19 · 0 comments
  2. …advocated by Feathers' Working Effectively with Legacy Code book (not Python specific). [1] https://github.com/jendrikseipp/vulture
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    Vulture: Find Dead Python Code
    story by polm23 · 2021-05-04 · 21 comments
  4. A similar tool, Vulture, exists for Python: https://github.com/jendrikseipp/vulture I haven't used it yet myself, but discovered it during a search inspired by this post and thought it would be worth sharing. Definitely a trickier problem…
  5. …typying, like automatically pruning dead code behind retired feature flags, make headway today: https://github.com/jendrikseipp/vulture Typing has a time and a place, that is without a doubt but the world is better viewed without the…
    comment by CraigJPerry · 2020-06-20 · in Practical Python Programming