RE: Can synopsis (be made to) follow Python impo rts?

> From: Vicki Brown [mailto:[email protected]]

> Subject: [Synopsis-devel] Can synopsis (be made to) follow Python
> imports?
> 
> 
> (or C++ #includes, or...)

For C++ a file traversal using #include statements is definitely
possible (though currently not implemented, please open a feature
request on http://synopsis.fresco.org/issues/bug for that).

Python is an entirely different story, as name lookup is done
at runtime, and so a static analyzer can't predict what symbols
will be found when the python processor actually runs the code.

> I have (at my workplace) a set of Python source files that will 
> become a single executable process. The code is made up of many .py 
> files and assorted subdirectories. It is NOT a package.
> 
> The "main" file imports 50 additional files which, in turn, 
> import others.
> 
> What I want to see is the source, classes, functions, etc for the 
> entire executable program.
> 
> Is there a way I can get this information from synopsis?

you can process all the python code that is involved. But you
won't be able to construct something like a callgraph from that,
for example, as for that you'd have to execute the code (with
a modified interpreter).

Regards,
		Stefan