[code-quality] Change in error messages in pylint 1.1

[Mark E. Hamilton]

Hi,

When we updated to pylint 1.1 many of the messages changed. In 
particular, the invalid-name (C0103) message used to say:

... Invalid name "Test_which" for type class (should match 
[A-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9]+$)

which was really useful, since (if you understand regular expressions) 
it tells the user exactly what the name pattern should be. Now, however, 
it only says:

... Invalid class name "Test_which"

This is less than useful, since as a user I might not know where to go 
to find out what the RE is that was matched against. The messages 
generated by --list-msgs only shows the general message:

:invalid-name (C0103): *Invalid %s name "%s"*
   Used when the name doesn't match the regular expression associated to 
its type
   (constant, variable, class...).

which doesn't help.

The default REs show up in the --long-help output, but a user has to run 
that manually, then look for the option which affects the particular 
message he is seeing.

Is there a way simple way to get the REs on the generated html pages again?

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Mark E. Hamilton
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Sandia National Laboratories
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