[Yum-devel] unused/useless methods

[Menno Smits]

seth vidal wrote:
> Hey Guys,
>  Anyone know of a way of finding out if a method has gone stale? I've
> been sifting through a lot of this stuff and I've found methods that are
> no longer used or used in once place where they can be easily replaced.
> Anyone know of anything other than grep to find these?

I haven't used it myself but Ned Batchelder's coverage.py[1] tool might 
help. It comes highly recommended. It tells you which lines of code were 
run when a Python program runs. You could run all the major operations 
that Yum can do and then find what code isn't called. It might help you 
narrow down to the code that is rarely/never called.

Menno

[1] http://www.nedbatchelder.com/code/modules/coverage.html