What to use for finding as many syntax errors as possible.
Roel Schroeven
roel at roelschroeven.net
Tue Oct 11 04:00:21 EDT 2022
Op 10/10/2022 om 19:08 schreef Robert Latest via Python-list:
> Antoon Pardon wrote:
> > I would like a tool that tries to find as many syntax errors as possible
> > in a python file.
>
> I'm puzzled as to when such a tool would be needed. How many syntax errors can
> you realistically put into a single Python file before compiling it for the
> first time?
I've been following the discussion from a distance and the whole time
I've been wondering the same thing. Especially when you have unit tests,
as Antoon said he has, I can't really imagine a situation where you add
so much code in one go without running it that you introduce a painful
amount of syntax errors.
My solution would be to use a modern IDE with a linter, possibly with
style warnings disabled, which will flag syntax errors as soon as you
type them. Possibly combined with a TDD-style tactic which also prevents
large amounts of errors (any errors) to build up. But I have the
impression that any of those doesn't fit in Antoon's workflow.
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