Flake8 plugin to find commented out or dead code https://pypi.org/project/flake8-eradicate/

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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.

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

Example:

flake8 your_module.py

--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 code	Description
E800	Found commented out code

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

MIT.