PyChecker is a python source code checking tool to help you find common bugs. It is meant to find problems that are typically caught by a compiler. Because of the dynamic nature of python, some warnings may be incorrect; however, spurious warnings should be fairly infrequent. Types of problems that can currently, be found include: * No doc strings in modules, classes, functions, and methods * self not the first parameter to a method * Wrong number of parameters passed to functions/methods * No global found (e.g., using a module without importing it) * Global not used (module or variable) PyChecker currently runs on Python 2.0. If there's interest, it can be back ported to Python 1.5.2. I have run PyChecker against Python 2.1b2a, the following are problems found in the standard python modules: ### Warnings codeop.py:3 Imported module (sys) not used codeop.py:4 Imported module (traceback) not used fileinput.py:292 Function (input) doesn't require named arguments multifile.py:30 Imported module (sys) not used pipes.py:62 Imported module (sys) not used urllib.py:598 Function (quote) doesn't require named arguments urllib.py:611 Function (quote) doesn't require named arguments string.py:190 Variable (_StringType) not used tabnanny.py:15 Imported module (string) not used imported again @ 241 and used there ### Errors: audiodev.py:214 No global (BUFFERSIZE) found bdb.py:111 No method (do_clear) found chunk.py:109 No attribute (chunk_size) found should be chunksize locale.py:253 No global (l) found netrc.py:13 No global (file) found pydoc.py:1070 No global (DocImportError) found pydoc.py:1070 No global (filename) found PyChecker is available on Source Forge: web page: http://pychecker.sourceforge.net/ project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pychecker/ Enjoy! Feedback is greatly appreciated. Neal -- pychecker@metaslash.com