Find circular imports in Python - automated

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Circular imports in Python can lead to suddenly appearing bugs.

I guess it should be quite easy to detect them automatically:

Lazy imports which happen during run time are out of the scope of this question.

Does anybody know a tool which can detect circular imports in Python?

I was told pylint can do this. But a simple test failed. See bitbucket.org/logilab/pylint/issue/515/… — guettli, Apr 8 '15 at 7:57

guettli · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-27 14:16:55Z

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pylint does it. But it is not obvious for pylint newbees, since you need to call pytlint with both file names as argument.

answered Apr 27 '15 at 14:16

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