Hi ! I'm very pleased to announce the new 0.9 release of PyLint. This release provides a lot of bug fixes and some new checks and other minor changes. This release depends on the latest astng and logilab-common release (i.e. 0.14 and 0.13 respectivly), so install them before this one. The good news is that the new astng inference capabilities should allow to add powerful checks to pylint in a new future :o) What's new ? ------------ 2006-01-10 -- 0.9.0 * a lot of updates to follow astng 0.14 API changes, so install logilab-astng 0.14 or greater before using this version of pylint * checker number 10 ! newstyle will search for problems regarding old style / new style classes usage problems (rely on astng 0.14 new style detection feature) * new 'load-plugins' options to load additional pylint plugins (usable from the command line or from a configuration file) (implements #10031) * check if a "pylintrc" file exists in the current working directory before using the one specified in the PYLINTRC environment variable or the default ~/.pylintrc or /etc/pylintrc * fixed W0706 (Identifier used to raise an exception is assigned...) false positive and reraising a catched exception instance * fixed E0611 (No name get in module blabla) false positive when accessing to a class'__dict__ * fixed some E0203 ("access to member before its definition") false positive * fixed E0214 ("metaclass method frist argument should be mcs) false positive with staticmethod used on a metaclass * fixed packaging which was missing the test/regrtest_data directory * W0212 (method could be a function) has been reclassified in the REFACTOR category as R0201, and is no more considerer when a method overrides an abstract method from an ancestor class * include module name in W0401 (wildcard import), as suggested by Amaury * when using the '--parseable', path are written relative to the current working directory if in a sub-directory of it (#9789) * 'pylint --version' shows logilab-astng and logilab-common versions * fixed pylint.el to handle space in file names * misc lint style fixes 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/projects/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 Enjoy and happy new year ! -- Sylvain Thénault LOGILAB, Paris (France). http://www.logilab.com http://www.logilab.fr http://www.logilab.org