Am 19.08.15 um 03:35 schrieb Skip Montanaro:
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Claudiu Popa <pcmanticore@gmail.com <mailto:pcmanticore@gmail.com>> wrote:
For pylint users, what do you think about the removal of these reports from pylint? Would it cause problems for you? Are these reports in any sense useful for you?
No problem removing them. Not really useful in my experience, except very rarely as a relative indicator of the direction things are moving.
As a corollary, I will note that some users where I work seemed mesmerized by high scores (10/10, etc) and relied on them, not being aware that pylint wasn't some all-seeing-all-knowing Python code genie. I tried to disabuse them of that notion. I think it would be better to remove them and make people (especially Python newbies) focus on individual messages.
As a Python trainer, I do have contact with many Python beginners. I use pylint in all of my introductory and many of my more advanced courses. Based on feedback from these users, I would suggest: 1. Make all these long-winded metrics and other reports optional, i.e. not default. 2. Keep the score. The score makes it a bit like a game. People really have fun with it. I think for the most part this is a good thing. Of course, there are always a few people who put too much emphasis on the score. But I think the advantages of the score are much bigger the disadvantages. Mike
Skip
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