[Python-ideas] lint in stdlib

[CTO]

On May 4, 8:57 pm, Ben Finney <ben+pyt... at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Aahz <a... 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/>

I've sent emails to pylint, pychecker, pyflakes, and pep8.py. We'll
see
what comes out of that, but if anybody is aware of any alternative
emails
for any of the above, I should probably send something to those too-
the
one for pylint in particular doesn't look like it's been checked in a
while.

Geremy Condra