Neat code complexity tool.
David Stanek wrote a nice utility to measure code complexity. This post explains the details. Anyway, I downloaded his code and tried it out. I really like it:
$ cat matt.py
"""A few functions for use with pygenie."""
def f(x):
"Make an 8-way branch, 1 layer deep."
if x == 1: return 1
elif x == 2: return 2
elif x == 3: return 3
elif x == 4: return 4
elif x == 5: return 5
elif x == 6: return 6
elif x == 7: return 7
elif x == 8: return 8
def g(a, b, c):
"This function has 8 paths."
if a:
if b:
if c:
return 1 # a and b and c.
else:
return 2 # a and b and not c.
else:
if c:
return 3 # a and not b and c
else:
return 4 # a and not b and not c.
else:
if b:
if c:
return 5 # not a and b and c.
else:
return 6 # not a and not b and c.
else:
if c:
return 7 # not a and b and not c.
else:
return 8 # not a and not b and not c.
def h(x):
if x: return True
else: return False
And this is what happens when I run the code:
$ ./pygenie.py complexity matt.py
File: /home/matt/svn-checkouts/cyclic_complexity/matt.py
Type Name Complexity
------------------–
F f 9
F g 8
The functions f and g have a complexity exceeding 7, so they print out.
This might make a nice nose plugin.