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So Flake8 would actually recognize that if you installed Flake8 under Python 3 (e.g., pip3 install flake8), and then run flake8 from Python 3. You can do this with a virtualenv more easily like: virtualenv -ppython3 path/to/virtualenv source path/to/virtualenv/bin/activate pip install flake8 flake8 project/ PyFlakes will only run checks for the version of Python it is installed on. Let me know if you run into any problems with this. On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 3:36 AM, François Magimel <francois.magimel@etu.enseeiht.fr> wrote:
Le 25/08/2014 02:24, Ian Cordasco a écrit :
On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 3:07 PM, François Magimel <francois.magimel@etu.enseeiht.fr> wrote:
Hello!
I'm new in this mailing, so I will introduce myself first. I'm François (alias Linkid), a French engineering student who code mainly in Python. I'm involved in some open source projects and some of them like Django or OpenStack.
I would like to add a test for Python 3 to check an import, but I don't really know on which project (pep8, pyflakes, …) to do that and how to do it (by a push request on github or somewhere else, by a bug report, …). I searched some clue and I think my test should be used by pyflakes, but I'm not sure… So, here are my questions: - on which project should I add a Python 3 import test ? - how I should process ?
I think it could help be a lot if someone explain me what one project really check, if it is possible.
Thank you.
François Magimel (Linkid) Hello François,
I'm not quite sure anyone on this list can answer your question. You haven't given us any guidance about what the check is that you would like to add. Do you want to check for imports that are not used in Python 3? Are you looking for imports that would fail on Python 3 instead? Are you looking to ensure some style of imports? Perhaps you're looking to do what openstack/hacking already does (ensure only modules are imported)? There are too many possibilities for us to be helpful.
Further, unless what you wish to add is part of http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/, I can at least tell you that it does *not* belong in pep8. If you can give us more details I can also tell you whether it belongs in PyFlakes. If it turns out it does not belong in PyFlakes, you can always write and release your own plugin for Flake8.
Sorry I cannot be more helpful, Ian
Hello,
Oh, yes, it will be better if I give some details. My code didn't pass my python 3 tests due to an import of string. As a matter of fact, I was using string.letters which is not in python 3 anymore. However, when I tested my code with flake8, I wasn't warned about it. So, I would like to add this warning (maybe to PyFlakes, but I'm not sure). And I think it is not only an OpenStack issue because it concerns every projects. So, if someone can help me to add it (to PyFlakes?) by giving me the process (PR on GitHub?), I will be very happy to contribute :).
Thank you for your answer, Ian. François