Special thanks to Ken Pronovici. He did a lot of work for this release and helped ensure it occurred. Version 0.8.15 of PyChecker is available. It's been over a year since the last release. Wow, time really does fly. Since it's been so long I'm sure I screwed something up, treat it delicately. It may have bugs and erase your hard drive. If that happens, look on the bright side, you won't have any more bugs. :-) PyChecker is a tool for finding bugs in Python source code. It finds problems that are typically caught by a compiler for less dynamic languages, like C and C++. It is similar to lint. Comments, criticisms, new ideas, and other feedback is welcome. Since I expect there may be a bit more bugs than normal, I will try to put out another release in a few weeks. Please file bug reports including problems with installation, false positives, &c on Source Forge. You are welcome to use the mailling list to discuss anything pychecker related, including ideas for new checks. Changes from 0.8.14 to 0.8.15: * Fix spurious warning about catching string exceptions * Don't barf if there is # -*- encoding: ... -*- lines and unicode strings * setup.py was rewritten to honor --root, --home, etc options * Fix internal error on processing nested scopes * Fix constant tuples in Python 2.4 * Don't warn about implicit/explicit returns in Python 2.4, we can't tell * Fix crash when __slots__ was an instance w/o __len__ * Fix bug that declared {}.pop to only take one argument, it takes 1 or 2 * Fix spurious warning when using tuples for exceptions * Fix spurious warning <stack> / <stack> * Fix spurious warnings for sets module about __cmp__, __hash__ * Changed abstract check to require raising NotImplementedError rather than raising any error * Fix spurious warnings in Python 2.4 for Using is (not) None warnings * Fix spurious warnings for some instances of No class attribute found * Fix spurious warnings for implicit returns when using nested functions PyChecker is available on Source Forge: Web page: http://pychecker.sourceforge.net/ Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pychecker/ Mailing List: pychecker-list@lists.sourceforge.net Neal -- pychecker-list@lists.sourceforge.net