[Python-ideas] lint in stdlib

[Aahz]

On Mon, May 04, 2009, Chris Rebert wrote:
>>>> 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
> 
> Wouldn't it be be better placed in the Tools/ directory rather than as
> part of the stdlib?

Perhaps, but I don't think so -- you need a source tree to get Tools/
AFAIK, and if some form of lint gets blessed by incorporation into
Python, then it needs to be available for all standard installs.
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