Hopefully this is the right place for Pylint suggestions; I did not see any

other mailing lists that appeared to fit.

I am working on a large project with a lot of existing Python code,

and we use pylint in our processes.

One frequently used module has a class with a lot of property methods

and regular methods, e.g.

class Cl(Parent):

    @property

    def thing1(self):

        return calculate_thing1()

    @property

    def test2(self):

        return get_test2()

    def is_fubd(self):

        return some_other_test() == 42

So, naturally, I mistakenly used the last item above as if it was

a property instead of a method:

    if is_fubd:

                do_something()

    else:

                do_something_else()

The code, of course, needs to be:

    if is_fubd():

        ...

The first form is valid code but mostly useless, because the

is_fubd method exists so an 'if' test is always true. And it is

a real pain to find the mistake by inspection.  It would sure

be nice to have pylint flag this usage as suspicious.