Pychecker plugins?

Manoj Plakal terabaap at yumpee.org
Tue Apr 30 23:47:13 EDT 2002


Pychecker gurus,

Are there any plans for allowing user-written plugins for Pychecker?

Right now, it seems that Pychecker traverses Python code and
performs a fixed list of checks. It would be cool to expose
a plugin API so that users can write their own specific
checkers e.g., to confirm with local style guides, and not
have to burrow into Pychecker source code to do this.

And perhaps this could open the door to more than just checking,
one can imagine plugins transforming the traversed code to
implement profiling, or pre-post-condition-checking etc.
Bordering on what one might do with metaclasses or aspect-oriented
programming. Having Pychecker be a generic Python code-object
traverser-cum-transformer would be powerful.

Manoj




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