jendrikseipp/vulture
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5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 2 stories, 3 comments · first 2020-06-20 · latest 2026-03-19
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…advocated by Feathers' Working Effectively with Legacy Code book (not Python specific). [1] https://github.com/jendrikseipp/vulture
comment by shoo · 2026-02-03 · in Ask HN: Why dead code detection in Python is harder than most tools admit -
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…
comment by squillful · 2020-06-22 · in Uber open-sources tool to automatically clean up stale code -
…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