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Re: Find out where a class is used throughout a program.

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Azureaus <lo0446@my.bristol.ac.uk> writes:
> ...
> is there a way of finding out / visualising where a particular class is called/used throughout a program?

I do not know a simple and reliable way.

When I face such a situation, I use standard operating system
utilities (e.g. "grep -r" under *nix) to search for occurrences of
the class name in the source tree. This often gives good
results when the class name has been well chosen.

Recently (within the last 2 months), I have seen the announcement
(on "...python.announce") of a tracing tool (I forgot the package's
name; maybe, it has been "CodeInspector"). When I have understood
the announcement correctly, then it traces concrete runs
and allows you to explore where objects (e.g. classes) have
been used *in these runs*.

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Find out where a class is used throughout a program. Azureaus <lo0446@my.bristol.ac.uk> - 2013-09-04 09:32 -0700
  Re: Find out where a class is used throughout a program. dieter <dieter@handshake.de> - 2013-09-04 22:08 +0200
    Re: Find out where a class is used throughout a program. Irmen de Jong <irmen.NOSPAM@xs4all.nl> - 2013-09-04 22:40 +0200
  Re: Find out where a class is used throughout a program. Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-09-04 17:36 -0400
  Re: Find out where a class is used throughout a program. alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2013-09-05 10:11 +1000
  Re: Find out where a class is used throughout a program. Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-09-04 21:48 -0400
  Re: Find out where a class is used throughout a program. Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-05 02:16 +0000
  Re: Find out where a class is used throughout a program. Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-09-05 09:08 +0000
  Re: Find out where a class is used throughout a program. Azureaus <lo0446@my.bristol.ac.uk> - 2013-09-05 05:42 -0700
    Re: Find out where a class is used throughout a program. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-09-05 22:53 +1000

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