[Tutor] should this cause a syntax error? [does pychecker work?]
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
shalehperry@attbi.com
Sat Nov 2 17:48:01 2002
On Saturday 02 November 2002 14:16, Danny Yoo wrote:
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> Warnings...
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> test.py:2: Statement appears to have no effect
> ###
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>
> Wow! That's very nice! So yes, this PyChecker utility will point out
> suspicious looking code. We can grab PyChecker here:
>
> http://pychecker.sourceforge.net/
>
and especially handy because this is as close to compile time checks as y=
ou=20
can get. If that statement had been in a rarely used function who knows =
how=20
long that bug could have survived.