PySonar2 is a type inferencer and indexer for Python, which performs sophisticated interprocedural analysis to infer types. It is one of the underlying technologies that power the code search engine Sourcegraph, where it has been used to index hundreds of thousands of open source Python repositories, producing a globally connected network of Python code. An older version of PySonar is used internally at Google, producing high-quality semantic code index for millions of lines of Python code.
To understand its properties, please refer to my blog post:
mvn package
PySonar2 is mainly designed as a library for Python IDEs, other developer tools and code search engines, so its interface may not be as appealing as an end-user tool, but for your understanding of the library's capabilities, a reasonably nice demo program has been built.
You can build a simple "code-browser" of the Python 2.7 standard library with the following command line:
java -jar target/pysonar-<version>.jar /usr/lib/python2.7 ./html
This will take a few minutes. You should find some interactive HTML files inside the html directory after this process.
- Python 2.7.x
- Python 3.x if you have Python3 files
- Java 8
- maven
PySonar2 uses CPython's ast package to parse Python code, so please make sure
you have python or python3 installed and pointed to by the PATH
environment variable. If you have them in different names, please make symbol
links.
PYTHONPATH environment variable is used for locating the Python standard
libraries. It is important to point it to the correct Python library, for
example
export PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/python2.7
If this is not set up correctly, you may find suboptimal results.
PySonar2 doesn't need much memory to do analysis compared to other static analysis tool of its class. 1.5Gb is probably enough for analyzing a medium sized project such as Python's standard library or Django. But for generating the HTML files, you may need quite some memory (~2.5Gb for Python 2.7 standard lib). This is due to the highlighting code is putting all code and their HTML tags into the memory.
PySonar - a type inferencer and indexer for Python
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