Python lint tool (was: Re: [Python-Dev] Python keywords (was Lockstep iteration - eureka!))

[Ka-Ping Yee]

Trent Mick wrote:
Oh yeah? What does the linter check? I would be interested in seeing that.

James C. Ahlstrom wrote:
> Actually I have better luck parsing Python than linting it.  [...]
> All I can really do so far is get and check function signatures.

Python is hard to lint-check because types and objects are so
dynamic.  Last time i remember visiting this issue, Tim Peters
came up with a lint program that was based on warning you if
you used a particular spelling of an identifier only once (thus
likely to indicate a typing mistake).

I enhanced this a bit to follow imports and the result is at

    http://www.lfw.org/python/

(look for "pylint").

The rule is pretty simplistic, but i've tweaked it a bit and it
has actually worked pretty well for me.

Anyway, feel free to give it a whirl.



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