lint for Python?

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:38:13 -0400, Pat wrote:

> Pylint does a decent job at checking for errors only within a single
> module.
> 
> Here's one of my problems.  I have two modules.
> 
> In module one, I have a function:
> 
> def foo( host, userid, password ):
>      pass
> 
> In module two, I call that function:
> 
> foo( userid, password)
> 
> lint doesn't find that error and it won't be caught until it's called
> while the program is running.  I don't want that error found at 3AM.

Then don't run the unit tests that late at night (or early in the 
morning).  ;-)

Besides the `unittest` module from the standard library you might look 
into `py.test` and `nose`.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch