Managing import statements

[Shane Hathaway]

Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 02:21:39 -0700, Shane Hathaway <shane at hathawaymix.org> wrote:
>>How about PyLint / PyChecker?  Can I configure one of them to tell me
>>only about missing / extra imports?  Last time I used one of those
>>tools, it spewed excessively pedantic warnings.  Should I reconsider?
> 
> 
> I use pyflakes for this: <http://divmod.org/trac/wiki/DivmodPyflakes>.  The *only* things it tells me about are modules that are imported but never used and names that are used but not defined.  It's false positive rate is something like 1 in 10,000.

That's definitely a good lead.  Thanks.

> This is something I've long wanted to add to pyflakes (or as another feature of pyflakes/emacs integration).

Is there a community around pyflakes?  If I wanted to contribute to it, 
could I?

Shane