[Python-Dev] To 3.0.2 or not to 3.0.2?

[Benjamin Peterson]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> Benjamin Peterson schrieb:
>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Samuele Pedroni <pedronis at openend.se> wrote:
>>> Didn't a test fail because of this? seems the underlying issue is that this
>>> part of the stdlib didn't have enough test coverage. It seems that having
>>> very good/improving test coverage like is recommended  for 3rd-party project
>>> wanting to switch would be a good goal for 3.0 evolution too. We know from
>>> PyPy experience that while always improving the test suite coverage is quite
>>> spotty at times.
>>
>> No, a test didn't fail. Our new distutils maintainer, Tarek Ziade,
>> though, has been increasing the distutils test coverage greatly.
>
> In addition to testing, this specific issue could have been found easily by
> running something like pylint over the stdlib, because undefined globals
> are one of the things they can detect with 100% accuracy...

Oh, does pylint support py3k now?

>
> The hard thing about pylint of course is to get the signal/noise ratio right :)




-- 
Regards,
Benjamin