pychecker proposal

[Roger Binns]

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