Bitten by my C/Java experience

[Cecil Westerhof]

Op Monday 4 May 2015 21:39 CEST schreef Ian Kelly:

> On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> On 04/05/2015 16:20, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>>>
>>> Potential dangerous bug introduced by programming in Python as if
>>> it was C/Java. :-( I used: ++tries that has to be: tries += 1
>>>
>>> Are there other things I have to be careful on? That does not work
>>> as in C/Java, but is correct syntax.
>>>
>>
>> Not dangerous at all, your test code picks it up. I'd also guess,
>> but don't actually know, that one of the various linter tools could
>> be configured to find this problem.
>
> pylint reports it as an error.

I installed it. Get a lot of messages. Mostly convention. For example:
    Unnecessary parens after 'print' keyword

And:
    Invalid variable name "f"
for:
    with open(real_file, 'r') as f:

But still something to add to my toolbox.

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Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof