pychecker proposal

[Nick Jacobson]

"Roger Binns" <rogerb at rogerbinns.com> wrote in message news:<m4qim1-3gl.ln1 at home.rogerbinns.com>...
> Nick Jacobson wrote:
> > I think that PyChecker should be part of the "batteries included"
> > library that comes with Python.  It can be a very useful tool for
> > catching errors and bad style.
> >
> > If it were in the standard library, newbies would be aware of it
> > sooner.
> 
> I would prefer a "lint" mode to the Python interpretter that runs
> in a full warnings mode, using both static analysis that pychecker
> does as well as any dynamic analysis that could be done.  I
> don't even care if it runs at half the speed of normal Python.
> 
> Roger

Yes!  I completely agree.  Perl has its "use strict" and "use
warnings".  Admittedly, Perl *needs* them more, but I think Python
could use something like this too.

Not everyone would have to use it, but IMO having the option to catch
certain bugs (or style mistakes) before run-time would be beneficial.