[Python-Dev] Issue #26204: compiler now emits a SyntaxWarning on constant statement

[Guido van Rossum]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Le 8 févr. 2016 9:34 PM, "Guido van Rossum" <guido at python.org> a écrit :
>> If you want to do linter integration that should probably be
>> integrated with the user's editor, like it is in PyCharm, and IIUC
>> people can do this in e.g. Emacs, Sublime or Vim as well. Leave the
>> interpreter alone.
>
> In GCC, warnings are welcome because it does one thing: compile code. GCC is
> used by developers. Users use the produced binary.
>
> In Python, it's different because it executes code and runs code. It's used
> by developers and users.
>
> It's more tricky to make choices like showing or not deprecation warnings.
>
> It looks like most Python developers prefer to use an external linter.
>
> I don't really care of the warning, I will remove it.

Thanks!

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)