2009/5/5 Aahz <aahz@pythoncraft.com>
On Mon, May 04, 2009, CTO wrote:
Aahz:
On Mon, May 04, 2009, John Graham wrote:
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.
It's been mentioned; I don't remember why it never got any traction, whether because the authors didn't want to deal with it or nobody bothered submitting a PEP (this definitely needs a PEP).
I'll volunteer to put one together if somebody's willing to walk me through the PEP process.
Sure! I suggest that you start by checking with the maintainers of pychecker and pylint to find out how they feel about it.
PyLint is huge and depends on a whole ream of support libraries. I think the logilab guys would probably rather maintain it themselves and I'm not sure it is really suitable for the standard library anyway. PyFlakes and PyChecker are both very good; although neither does as much as PyLint. I'm not sure if either of the two does enough to enforce full PEP-8 compliance. Michael Foord
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