---
name: "nudatus"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "python3-nudatus"
version: "0.0.5-4"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/nudatus"
---

# nudatus(1)

remove comments from Python 3 scripts

## NAME

**nudatus** - remove comments from Python 3 scripts

## SYNOPSIS

**nudatus** *input* \[*output*\]

**nudatus** **--version**

**nudatus** **-h**

## DESCRIPTION

nudatus is a utility to remove comments from Python 3 scripts.

nudatus was created to help fit longer, heavily-documented Python programs onto the micro:bit single-board computer (SBC), but it should be suitable for similar platforms with restricted storage capacity.

## ARGUMENTS

- input

  a Python script to remove comments from

- output

  a file to write the stripped Python script to. If output is not specified, output will be written to STDOUT.

## OPTIONS

- \--version

  print version number and exit

- \-h

  print help, then exit

## EXAMPLES

Remove comments from the script script.py and write the stripped file to script-min.py:

-

  ```
  nudatus script.py script-min.py
  ```

## REPORTING BUGS

Upstream bug tracker: https://github.com/ZanderBrown/nudatus/issues

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2018 Zander Brown

## AUTHOR

This manual page was created by Nick Morrott \<nickm@debian.org\> for the Debian GNU/Linux system, but may be used by others.

## SEE ALSO

[**mu-editor**(1)](/mu-editor/1.md), [**uflash**(1)](/uflash/1.md)