[code-quality] Two attribute usage checkers I'd like to see

[Martin Pool]

On 7 June 2013 09:32, Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> wrote:

>
> Correct, but I would just like to be alerted that perhaps I should
> consider narrowing my API.  Some of the code base I work on was around
> before Python 2.2 was available.  Over time, people have started to
> add property-based setters and getters.  In many circumstances, we
> should probably pick one way to do it, in this case self.foo vs
> self.get_foo().  I'm just looking for the message to remind me to
> consider the API duplication.  I'm not suggesting pylint or other
> tools should recommend one or the other.


That makes sense.  You could do something similar when people are migrating
methods but the old one's hanging around.

-- 
Martin
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