Hello all, I'm pleased to announce a new release of PyLint. This release mainly fixes multivalued options bug and a systematic crash with python 2.2. Users should also use the latest logilab's common library (0.9.3). What's new ? ------------ * allow to parse files without extension when a path is given on the command line (test noext) * don't fail if we are unable to read an inline option (e.g. inside a module), just produce an information message (test func_i0010) * new message E0103 for break or continue outside loop (close #8883, test func_continue_not_in_loop) * fix bug in the variables checker, causing non detection of some actual name error (close #8884, test func_nameerror_on_string_substitution) * fix bug in the classes checker which was making pylint crash if "object" is assigned in a class inheriting from it (test func_noerror_object_as_class_attribute) * fix problem with the similar checker when related options are defined in a configuration file * new --generate-man option to generate pylint's man page (require the latest logilab.common (>= 0.9.3) * packaged (generated...) man page What is pylint ? ---------------- Pylint is a python tool that checks if a module satisfy a coding standard. Pylint can be seen as another pychecker since nearly all tests you can do with pychecker can also be done with Pylint. But Pylint offers some more features, like checking line-code's length, checking if variable names are well-formed according to your coding standard, or checking if declared interfaces are truly implemented, and much more (see http://www.logilab.org/pylint/ for the complete check list). The big advantage with Pylint is that it is highly configurable, customizable, and you can easily write a small plugin to add a personal feature. The usage it quite simple : $ pylint mypackage.mymodule This command will output all the errors and warnings related to the tested code (here : mypackage.mymodule), will dump a little summary at the end, and will give a mark to the tested code. Pylint is free software distributed under the GNU Public Licence. Home page --------- http://www.logilab.org/projects/pylint Download -------- ftp://ftp.logilab.org/pub/pylint Mailing list ------------ mailto://python-projects@logilab.org -- Sylvain Thénault LOGILAB, Paris (France). http://www.logilab.com http://www.logilab.fr http://www.logilab.org