Question

I remember when I was developing in C++ or Java, the compiler usually complains for unused methods, functions or imports. In my Django project, I have a bunch of Python files which have gone through a number of iterations. Some of those files have a few lines of import statement at the top of the page and some of those imports are not used anymore. Is there a way to locate those unused imports besides eyeballing each one of them in each file?

All my imports are explicit, I don’t usually write from blah import *

Answer 1

PyFlakes (similar to Lint) will give you this information.

pyflakes python_archive.py

Example output:
python_archive.py:1: 'python_archive2.SomeClass' imported but unused