I can check python files or modules for error via some libraries, like: pylint, pychecker, pyflakes, etc. In most case, I must specify file or directory for checking. For example:
pylint directory/mymodule.py
It's ok, but not enough for me. I want analyze separated code block and get all detected errors and warnings. So, I must call a python code analyzer from my own module as a part of program.
import some_magic_checker
code = '''import datetime; print(datime.datime.now)'''
errors = some_magic_checker(code)
if len(errors) == 0:
exec(code) # code has no errors, I can execute its
else:
print(errors) # display info about detected errors
Does exist some python library like pylint or pyflakes, which provide functionality for python code checking without code compile? Thanks for your help.
UPD
I will try to explain what i mean in the simple example. I have one variable "codeString", which contains python source code. I must analyze this code (without any file creation and code execution, but I can compile code) and detect all warnings about incorrect blocks of a code. Let's look inside the pyflakes module and understand how it works.
There is a function "check" in module "pyflakes.api".
from pyflakes import checker
from pyflakes import reporter as modReporter
import _ast
import sys
def check(codeString, filename):
reporter = modReporter._makeDefaultReporter()
try:
tree = compile(codeString, filename, "exec", _ast.PyCF_ONLY_AST)
except SyntaxError:
value = sys.exc_info()[1]
msg = value.args[0]
(lineno, offset, text) = value.lineno, value.offset, value.text
# If there's an encoding problem with the file, the text is None.
if text is None:
# Avoid using msg, since for the only known case, it contains a
# bogus message that claims the encoding the file declared was
# unknown.
reporter.unexpectedError(filename, 'problem decoding source')
else:
reporter.syntaxError(filename, msg, lineno, offset, text)
return 1
except Exception:
reporter.unexpectedError(filename, 'problem decoding source')
return 1
# Okay, it's syntactically valid. Now check it.
w = checker.Checker(tree, filename)
w.messages.sort(key=lambda m: m.lineno)
for warning in w.messages:
reporter.flake(warning)
return len(w.messages)
How you can see, this function cannot work only with one parameter "codeString", we must also provide second parameter "filename". And this is my biggest problem, I don't have any file, just Python code in string variable.
pylint, pychecker, pyflakes and all libraries, what i know, works only with created files. So i try to find some solutions, which don't require link to Python file.
Built-in function "compile" allow to create compiled code or AST object and catch some errors without file creation and code execution. We must pass '<string>'
value as a second parameter, because code wasn’t read from a file.
>>> def execute(code_string):
>>> output = list()
>>> try:
>>> tree = compile(code_string, '<string>', 'exec')
>>> except Exception as e:
>>> print(e)
>>> else:
>>> exec(tree)
>>> # Now I can check code before calling the "exec" function
>>> code_string = 'print("Hello_World!")'
>>> execute(code_string) # All is ok
Hello_World!
>>> code_string = 'ERROR! print("Hello_World!")'
>>> execute(code_string) # This code will not executed
invalid syntax (<string>, line 1)