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

[Guido van Rossum]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:06 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Georg Brandl wrote:
>> Benjamin Peterson schrieb:
>>> Oh, does pylint support py3k now?
>>
>> I think you may have a point there, though I honestly don't know.
>
> I think it's a useful point in general - keeping something like pylint
> or pychecker running correctly against the CPython trunk could be a
> frustrating exercise on those occasions when we do change something that
> the static checker then chokes on (mainly thinking syntax changes here -
> they're obviously by far the minority of changes, but they do happen).
>
> Perhaps I'm being overly pessimistic, but my suspicion is that it would
> end up being tantamount to bringing whichever tool we decided to use
> into the standard library just to keep our own source tree passing cleanly.

This prompts a wild idea -- perhaps the framework of 2to3 could be
reused to create a new linter?

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