PyCG on file text

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PyCG on file text

lambdaofgod opened this issue 3 years ago · comments

Jakub Bartczuk commented 3 years ago

Is there a simple way to call PyCG on a file contents instead passing files?

Vitalis Salis · Answer 1 · Sat Jun 19 2021 16:11:56 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

If you mean PyCG reading from the source code from the standard input, no PyCG does not currently support that.

Jakub Bartczuk · Answer 2 · Sat Jun 19 2021 16:46:06 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I mean more like just passing file text as string instead of file.

Is there a fundamental reason why this would be hard?

Vitalis Salis · Answer 3 · Sat Jun 19 2021 20:02:06 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

It would require some refactoring since PyCG currently expects source files to be given as input. Can you give a use case where this functionality might be useful?

Jakub Bartczuk · Answer 4 · Sat Jun 19 2021 22:34:36 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I have a dataframe with contents of several hundred thousands of files that I scraped, and I don't want to create a file for each one of them.

Vitalis Salis · Answer 5 · Wed Jun 30 2021 02:31:32 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Sorry for the late reply, somehow missed the notification for that one.

The use case you are outlining makes sense. Unfortunately at this time, I don't have the resources to implement that, but I would be happy to assist you with an implementation plan.

I would start with the base processor (base.py:ProcessingBase). This class is in charge of reading the files from the input. This functionality needs to be refactored so that one can pass a string of file contents as an argument.