ANN: PyChecker v0.8.12

[Neal Norwitz]

A new version of PyChecker is available just in time for Christmas.
There's to be no complaining about the gifts it brings. :-)

        PyChecker is a tool for finding bugs in Python source code.
        It finds problems that are typically caught by a compiler for less
        dynamic languages, like C and C++.  It is similar to lint.

Comments, criticisms, new ideas, and other feedback is welcome.

It's been a while since the last release, over 6 months--a record
for PyChecker. :-)  So there may be problems with the release.
You've been warned.

This is primarily a bug fix release.  While there are a few new
features, the biggest change is that PyChecker can be run on Zope by
using the __import__ hook.  The __import__ hook was added earlier, but
had many bugs which made it fairly useless.  It should be a little
less useless now, YMMV, of course.

Changes from 0.8.11 to 0.8.12:
  * Add --isliteral option to warn when using is/is not against literal
    (e.g., XXX is 5    YYY is not 'abcdef', etc)
  * Add --modulo1 option to warn when using (expr % 1),
    which is constant when expr is an integer or string
  * Add -4/--noeffect option to disable warnings for 'Statement has no effect'
  * self is not first argument warning can be disabled with -S/--self ''
  * Don't print duplicate warnings when importing pychecker
  * Fix other spurious warnings when importing pychecker
  * Fix bug for spurious invalid arguments when passing a dict inline
  * Fix bug for spurious Statement has no effect when print >> x, ... ,
  * Add @option_file command line argument to read options from a file
  	(used on platforms which can't have too many options, ie Windows)
  * Fix several crashes
  * Line numbers should be close for Python 2.3 and if run on optimized code


PyChecker is available on Source Forge:
    Web page:           http://pychecker.sourceforge.net/
    Project page:       http://sourceforge.net/projects/pychecker/
    Mailing List:       pychecker-list at lists.sourceforge.net

Neal
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