ANN: PyChecker v0.8.10 released

[Neal Norwitz]

A new version of PyChecker is available for your hacking pleasure.

        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.


NOTE:  This is the last release I plan to support Python 1.5.2.


Changes from 0.8.9 to 0.8.10:
  * Add --unpack option to warn when unpacking a non-sequence
  * Add --unpacklen option to warn when unpacking sequence of wrong size
  * Add --changetypes option to warn when setting a variable to different types
  * Add --stringiter option to warn when iterating over a string
  * Add --input option to warn when using input()
  * Fix crash with checking properties or deriving from objects (2.2 only)
  * Fix crash with nested scopes and lambdas
  * Fix spurious warnings for constant conditionals when using ('%s' % value)
  * Fix spurious warnings for unused identifiers caused by from XXX import *
  * Add more information when module cannot be imported
  * Fix spurious warnings for implicit returns when using while 1:
  * Fix spurious warnings for implicit returns when using try/finally:
  * Fix spurious warning with globals that start w/__
  * Fix spurious warnings for modifying default arguments 
        when calling {}.get(), {}.has_key(), [].index(), [].count(), etc.
  * Fix spurious warnings in Python 1.5.2 when using from/import


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

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