[Python-ideas] lint in stdlib

[Ben Finney]

Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> writes:

> >> 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.
> 
> Sure!  I suggest that you start by checking with the maintainers of
> pychecker and pylint to find out how they feel about it.

The popularity of ‘pyflakes’ suggests it would be good to coordinate
with that project too. <URL:http://divmod.org/trac/wiki/DivmodPyflakes>
<URL:http://github.com/kevinw/pyflakes/>

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Ben Finney