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code-auditor

This is a package and command-line utility to audit code quality and compliance with best practices.

Installation

The package and command-line utility can be installed easily from PyPI using pip.

pip install code-auditor

To install a specific version, e.g. v0.2.0, use:

pip install code-auditor==0.2.0

To upgrade to the latest version:

pip install --upgrade code-auditor

For the latest development version, you can install directly from the source:

git clone https://github.com/SS-NES/code-auditor.git
cd code-auditor/
pip install .

CLI Usage

Usage: codeauditor [OPTIONS] PATH

  Audits the code base, where PATH is the path or URL address of the code base.

Options:
  --skip-analyser [change_log|citation|code_markdown|code_python|conduct|contributing|dependency_python|documentation|git|jupyter_notebook|license|notice|packaging_python|testing_python]
                                  List of analysers to skip.
  --skip-aggregator [citation|code|community|documentation|license|packaging|repository|testing|version_control|metadata]
                                  List of aggregators to skip.
  --skip-type [citation|code|community|dependency|documentation|license|metadata|packaging|publishing|repository|testing|version_control]
                                  List of processor types to skip.
  -r, --reference FILENAME        Path of the reference metadata for
                                  comparison (e.g. SMP).
  -b, --branch TEXT               Branch or tag of the remote code repository.
  -t, --path-type [zip|tar|tgz|tar.gz|git]
                                  Type of the file located at the path.
  -m, --metadata FILENAME         Path to store the metadata extracted from
                                  the code base.
  -o, --output PATH               Path to store the output.
  -f, --format [plain|html|json|yaml|markdown|rst|rtf|docx]
                                  Output format.  [default: rst]
  -p, --plain                     Enable plain output.
  -l, --message-level INTEGER RANGE
                                  Message level.  [default: 1; 1<=x<=5]
  -d, --debug                     Enable debug mode.
  -v, --version                   Show the version and exit.
  -h, --help                      Show this message and exit.

Examples

Audit the code in the current working directory and display the report in the terminal:

codeauditor .

Audit the code repository of code-auditor and display the report in the terminal:

codeauditor https://github.com/SS-NES/code-auditor

Audit the code repository of code-auditor and save the report as report.docx:

codeauditor https://github.com/SS-NES/code-auditor --format docx --output report.docx

Package Usage

Audit the code in the current working directory and display the report in the terminal:

import codeauditor

# Generate audit report
report = codeauditor.audit('.')

# Get report output as Markdown
out = report.output(format=codeauditor.report.OutputType.MARKDOWN)

# Display output
print(out)

Acknowledgements

This software was developed as part of the TDCC-NES Bottleneck Project "Best Practices for Sustainable Software" funded by the Thematic Digital Competence Centre (TDCC) for the Natural & Engineering Sciences (NES).