Finding unused Django code to remove

Question

I\'ve started working on a project with loads of unused legacy code in it. I was wondering if it might be possible to use a tool like coverage in combination with a crawler

Answer 1

pylint is great tool for static code analysis (among others things it will detect unused imports, variables or arguments).

• http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200806/pylint.html
• http://www.doughellmann.com/articles/pythonmagazine/completely-different/2008-03-linters/index.html