I think that this would be better a pylint specific issue on github Also I think this would be quite hard - it seems you want a check that says 'if this is a function that is used in a boolean but it it not called' that seems quite specific and you never know, if it's not a syntax error, perhaps it's legitimately used by someone? However I defer to the pylint gurus as this is just my conjecture :-) On 05/09/2018 11:05:21, Jim Reuter <jreuter@ddn.com> wrote: 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.