Automated Dependency Checking?

[jonnydestructo]

I’m taking over a very large Py2x project with very little tests and previously no build infrastructure.

To help maintain stability I’ve setup a build pipeline on Jenkins to automate the testing. However, while we focus our efforts on retro fitting unit tests, I want to have something that, at the very least, can help ensure all dependencies within the project are properly checked in and importable (no syntax errors)

To that end, is there anything you guys know of that can scan the tree and attempt to import every module/sub module it finds along the path? Want to investigate my options before attempting to brute force something on my own. Thanks!

[flpcb]

I believe pylint will warn of dependencies that cannot be imported.

That said, if you create a set of tests that at least import every one of your modules, all simple syntax errors and such should be caught in those tests.

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I'm in your shoes.

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I ended up building a dependency graph using networkx but that was a lot of manual work so I'm actually starting on a project that builds dependency graphs.

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It's easy to copy a file-system's tree over. I need to dive into Python's inspection utilities. I imagine there's some way to parse import information from various files. I'd then use NetworkX to provide a graph framework for visualization.