flake8-eradicate

flake8-eradicate

flake8 plugin to find commented out (or so called “dead”) code.

This is quite important for the project in a long run. Based on eradicate project.

Installation

pip install flake8-eradicate

It is also a valuable part of wemake-python-styleguide.

Usage

Run your flake8 checker as usual. Commented code should raise an error.

Example:

flake8 your_module.py

Options

• --eradicate-aggressive to enable aggressive mode from eradicate, can lead to false positives
• --eradicate-whitelist to overwrite the whitelist from eradicate (# separated list)
• --eradicate-whitelist-extend to extend the whitelist from eradicate (# separated list)

Error codes

Error code	Description
E800	Found commented out code

Output example

Here’s how output looks like (we are using wemake formatter):

License

MIT.