[Python-ideas] keywording prohibited

[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).
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