"no variable or argument declarations are necessary."

[Paul Rubin]

aleax at mail.comcast.net (Alex Martelli) writes:
> ap.py:4: No global (test) found
> ap.py:5: Local variable (ego1d) not used
> Helen:/tmp alex$ 
> 
> If you're so typo-prone and averse to unittests that you consider this
> kind of issue to be a serious problem, just use pychecker and get
> informed about any such typo, just as above.

That's very helpful, but why isn't it built into Python?