Pychecker plugins?

[Lothar Scholz]

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 22:47:13 -0500, Manoj Plakal <terabaap at yumpee.org>
wrote:

>
>Pychecker gurus,
>
>Are there any plans for allowing user-written plugins for Pychecker?
>
>Right now, it seems that Pychecker traverses Python code and
>performs a fixed list of checks. It would be cool to expose
>a plugin API so that users can write their own specific
>checkers e.g., to confirm with local style guides, and not
>have to burrow into Pychecker source code to do this.
>
>And perhaps this could open the door to more than just checking,
>one can imagine plugins transforming the traversed code to
>implement profiling, or pre-post-condition-checking etc.
>Bordering on what one might do with metaclasses or aspect-oriented
>programming. Having Pychecker be a generic Python code-object
>traverser-cum-transformer would be powerful.

But with the current python modules it is very easy to do this.
So i think there is no need to add this features to PyChecker. 
Its purpose is to check it for errors - but a plugin would be nice 
and could offer some advantages.