eradicate removes commented-out code from Python files.
With modern revision control available, there is no reason to save commented-out code to your repository. eradicate helps cleans up existing junk comments. It does this by detecting block comments that contain valid Python syntax that are likely to be commented out code. (It avoids false positives like the sentence this is not good, which is valid Python syntax, but is probably not code.)
This is free and open source software.
Website: github.com/PyCQA/eradicate
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Developer: Steven Myint
License: Open source
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