[Python-ideas] lint in stdlib

[Jeremy Hylton]

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2009/5/5 Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com>
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>> On Mon, May 04, 2009, CTO wrote:
>> > Aahz:
>> >> On Mon, May 04, 2009, John Graham wrote:
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>> >>> 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).
>> >
>> > I'll volunteer to put one together if somebody's willing to walk me
>> > through the PEP process.
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>> Sure!  I suggest that you start by checking with the maintainers of
>> pychecker and pylint to find out how they feel about it.
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> PyLint is huge and depends on a whole ream of support libraries. I think the
> logilab guys would probably rather maintain it themselves and I'm not sure
> it is really suitable for the standard library anyway.

We use pylint at work for our own lint tool.  It's been useful to us.
I'm not sure that I see much value in adding it or something like it
to the standard distribution.  If there is a good lint tool that
supports PEP 8 and is available for download, I expect most python
developers would install it.

Jeremy

> PyFlakes and PyChecker are both very good; although neither does as much as
> PyLint. I'm not sure if either of the two does enough to enforce full PEP-8
> compliance.
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> Michael Foord
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