reiz.io

reiz.io is a structural source code search engine for Python. Compared to the popular alternatives (e.g Github Code Search) it executes queries over the syntax trees (instead of raw source code) and tries to retrive structural knowledge (no semantics applied). For more information, please see the docs.

A gentle introduction

Reiz is the code search framework that reiz.io is built a top on. Due to it's nature, it solely works with the ASTs and intentionally avoids doing any semantical work.

{note} Some ASTs attach a bit of contextual knowledge (e.g `Name(ctx=...)` on python) which can be queried through simple matcher queries but reiz.io doesn't include them when comparing references (see matchers#reference-matcher for details).

Here is a simple ReizQL query that searches for a function that ends with a try statement where we return a call to a function that has the same name as the function we are within.

python FunctionDef(~func, body=[*..., Try(body=[Return(Call(Name(~func)))])])

which would match the following;

py def foo(spam): eggs = bar() try: return foo(spam + eggs) except ValueError: return None

In the very basic sense, it is generating the AST of the code above and checks whether it fits the pattern (ReizQL query) or not.;

py FunctionDef( name='foo', args=arguments( posonlyargs=[], args=[arg(arg='spam', annotation=None, type_comment=None)], vararg=None, kwonlyargs=[], kw_defaults=[], kwarg=None, defaults=[], ), body=[ Assign( targets=[Name(id='eggs', ctx=Store())], value=Call( func=Name(id='bar', ctx=Load()), args=[], keywords=[], ), type_comment=None, ), Try( body=[ Return( value=Call( func=Name(id='foo', ctx=Load()), args=[ BinOp( left=Name(id='spam', ctx=Load()), op=Add(), right=Name(id='eggs', ctx=Load()), ), ], keywords=[], ), ), ], handlers=[ ExceptHandler( type=Name(id='ValueError', ctx=Load()), name=None, body=[ Return( value=Constant(value=None, kind=None), ), ], ), ], orelse=[], finalbody=[], ), ], decorator_list=[], returns=None, type_comment=None, )