May 4, 2009
2:47 p.m.
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org> wrote:
spir writes:
> Depends on your pov. I consider the _possibility_ of using 'list', > 'range' or 'type' as a name for totally custom thing, without even > a warning, an issue, not a wishable feature. It _invents_ very hard > to diagnose bugs.
If you want warnings, use pylint. It catches all of those.
Has anyone ever suggested a standard pylint, something that might be distributed with the interpreter/libraries? As important as the 'look-and-feel' is to Python, it seems like an automated style-checker / 'you probably didn't meant to do that' engine would be a good idea to introduce even newbies to the language instead of them having to search it out. -jg