Mailman 3 April 2017 - code-quality

Thanks for pyflakes
by Edward K. Ream 28 Apr '17

28 Apr '17

I just wanted to thank the pyflakes devs for having written the most useful checker in the python world. Pyflakes catches roughly 90% of the programming blunders I make, before ever I run the code. My configuration of Leo ensures that: - pyflakes checks all changed .py files as Leo writes them, - Leo raises a dialog so that I can't ignore pyflakes warnings :-) In other words, the pyflakes warnings are so important that it's worthwhile to stop everything and deal with them. 11 months ago I studied pyflakes in detail in this repo <https://github.com/edreamleo/pyflakes-study>. The introductory remarks called pyflakes a work of genius. My admiration for pyflakes has only grown since then. At that time I suggested some changes that would make pyflakes about 10% faster at the cost of making the code more complex. I regret making those suggestions. Pyflakes is plenty fast, even on Leo's biggest source files, some of which are almost 300K in size. Again, thank you for a truly great tool. Edward ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Edward K. Ream: edreamleo(a)gmail.com Leo: http://leoeditor.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Flake8 and Python 3
by diek 27 Apr '17

27 Apr '17

Good Day, I have searched and read some posts on reddit and stack but I cannot get flake8 to use Python3. I looked at your docs, but I cannot find it. I am using a Python3 virtualenv, and I pip installed Flake8. Flake8 is installed: _env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/flake8/utils.py Running version: 3.3.0 (mccabe: 0.6.1, pycodestyle: 2.3.1, pyflakes: 1.5.0) CPython 2.7.13 on Darwin It is showing errors for items that are valid syntax. I require both Python 2 and 3 on my computer. I am sure I am not the first person to have this issue, please how do I resolve this? Thank you, derrick

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Pydocstyle 2.0.0 released
by Amir Rachum 23 Apr '17

23 Apr '17

Hi friends, Pydocstyle 2.0.0 was released and the new major version includes numpy convention support! You can find the full release notes here: http://www.pydocstyle.org/en/latest/release_notes.html#april-18th-2017 If you find any issues with this (or any other) version, please report them at our GitHub repo at: https://github.com/PyCQA/pydocstyle Cheers! Amir Rachum

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New Static Analysis Security Tool
by Kevin Hock 22 Apr '17

22 Apr '17

Hi, I just wanted to send you a link to a Python security project you or coworkers might be interested in https://github.com/python-security/pyt

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Why does pylint flag this?
by Mark Syms 20 Apr '17

20 Apr '17

We've recently started to see pylint flag issues on a piece of code that looks similar to this - --------------------------------------- #!/bin/python """ Test the TemporaryFile iterator """ import os import tempfile with tempfile.TemporaryFile() as nullfh: nullfh.write(b'Hello world!') nullfh.seek(0, os.SEEK_SET) for line in nullfh: line = line.strip() print line --------------------------------------- With pylint 1.7.1, astroid 1.5.2 Python 2.7.5 (default, Nov 6 2016, 00:28:07) This reports - E: 13,16: Non-iterable value nullfh is used in an iterating context (not-an-iterable) However the code is functional so nullfh does work in the iterating context. Any clues as to why this is being flagged would be appreciated. Thanks, Mark.

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Proposal to extend pylintrc syntax to allow multiple disable/enable parameters
by Michael Overmeyer 19 Apr '17

19 Apr '17

Hello, I'm trying to set up my build system to use pylintrc files during the build. For example, in my pylintrc file I was going to do something like: ``` disable=all enable=E disable=import-error ``` Which (of course) doesn't work: ``` $>pylint --rcfile=pylintrc my_file.py <stacktrace truncated> backports.configparser.DuplicateOptionError: While reading from 'pylintrc' [line 24]: option u'disable' in section u'MESSAGES CONTROL' already exists ``` Once I realised that they are INI files, it made more sense. INI files do not allow for multiple values for a key (within a section), and different parsers handle this case differently. Since strict=True was being used by the Python parser, it raise this exception. The annoying part is that you can pass multiple 'enable/disable' arguments on the command line. In fact, there is an example in the documentation auto-generated by `pylint --generate-rcfile`: "If you want to run only the classes checker, but have no Warning level messages displayed, use '--disable=all --enable=classes --disable=W'" But this cannot be done in the pylintrc file. Annoying, since I was not going to use the command line and changing my build system to do would be non-trivial. I would like to see the pylintrc file have at least as much capability as the command line. I would like to propose to extend the syntax to provide an ordering. Proposal: Today we have "disable" and "enable", with "enable" taking precedent. Perhaps we could change the syntax to be "disableX" "enableY", with X and Y being positive integers. Higher precedence would be determined by higher integers. "enable" would still have precedent within a given integer level. It would be backwards compatible, with 'disable' being an alias for 'disable1' and 'enable' being an alias for 'enable1'. Some examples: ``` disable=all enable=classes disable2=W ``` would be equivalent to: ``` disable1=all enable1=classes disable2=W ``` There could easily be a better way to do that this, or some pattern/syntax people already use when dealing with INI files in order to work around this. I would like to see the pylintrc file have at least as much capability as the command line. Let me know what you think, Michael Overmeyer

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Bug Report: pylint on Windows has problems dealing with Python directory with spaces
by 张胜利 17 Apr '17

17 Apr '17

Hi pylint team: Bug Report: pylint on Windows has problems dealing with Python directory with spaces.

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Pylint 1.7.0 was released
by Claudiu Popa 13 Apr '17

13 Apr '17

Hey folks, We just released a new version of Pylint, 1.7.0, after a long period of time since the last release. You can find more details about what's new in this release over here: https://pylint.readthedocs.io/en/latest/whatsnew/1.7.html Thanks and enjoy, Claudiu

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W0602 global-variable-not-assigned
by Josh Powers 06 Apr '17

06 Apr '17

Hi, I have code similar to [1] where instead of directly assigning a dictionary global variable the dictionary method update is used. Right now this results in a W0602 global-variable-not-assigned. Is this expected behavior and if so is there a better way to write the above? The actual code giving me this message is in cloud-init [2]. [1] https://paste.ubuntu.com/24330114/ [2] https://github.com/cloud-init/cloud-init/blob/master/cloudinit/util.py#L114 --- Josh Powers Ubuntu Server Canonical Ltd

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Pylint -- so which is it?
by Stephen Satchell 04 Apr '17

04 Apr '17

I have a python2.7 project, and when I run PyLint 1.5.2, astroid 1.3.3 on files, I get a Catch-22 situation. When I have: import logging import pexpct import re import time I get messages about wrong import order, specifically that re and time comes after pexpect. OK, apply the obvious fix: import logging import re import time import pexect and now the diagnostics I get are "standard import "re" comes before "pexpect". ditto "time". Can't win for losing. So how do I fix this, other than abandoning programming and take up advanced backet-weaving as a profession? :) (Yes, I did check back six months in the mailing list archives, and didn't see any discussion.)

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