Static Inspector is a Python library to parse, model, inspect, and modify source codes of a variety of programming languages.

It can be used to construct an OO model of a project to do further inspections and modifications. The modelling is not limited to files or packages, and can be done up to project or repository level. The model is intended to be as general-purpose as possible, to consider all aspects of modern projects (repositories, code frameworks, required libraries, paths, static content, projects with multiple languages, etc.), as well as being simple to use.

Parsers for some popular languages and frameworks are included in the library (currently Python, Java, Django, and Android), which can construct project models without needing any extra configuration. The library's architecture separates the parsing from other parts of the system to allow use of a common codebase for inspecting different languages, frameworks, and project types.

There are many inspection and parsing tools available for python, inculding standard inspect or ast, and many other third party libraries (see Ned Batchelder's overview). Static Inspector tries to provide extra features like project-level parsing, inspection without needing to import the code to be inspected, OO modeling of the parsing results, and out of the box support for major languages and frameworks.

Another feature of Static Inspector parser is preserving the real code structure (including comments, indentation, definition order, and code line number) to enable use cases like code quality inspection, source code modification (like a human programmer), and maybe more detailed coverage reports.