[code-quality] Catching multiple return types

[Skip Montanaro]

Thanks, good to know. Yet another tool for the kit...

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On Wed, Apr 18, 2018, 3:43 PM Dan Stromberg <strombrg at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> IINM, mypy can catch such things.  But that's a different sort of tool of
> course.
>
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 1:25 PM, Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Is there a static checker which will catch multiple return types?
>> Consider this dumb example:
>>
>> def func(a, b, c):
>>     if c:
>>         return (a, b)
>>     return 0
>>
>> I thought pylint had a checker for that, but running with
>> --rcfile=/dev/null didn't complain about the different types being
>> returned. Is there perhaps a checker for that which isn't enabled by
>> default? Or another static tool which will catch it?
>>
>> Thx,
>>
>> Skip
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> --
> Dan Stromberg
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