How to catch these kind of bugs in Python?

[Jorge Godoy]

"asincero" <asincero at gmail.com> writes:

> In the above example, message should be set to 'Some obscure condition
> occured.' if some_obscure_condition is True.  But due to a lack of
> sleep, and possibly even being drunk, the programmer has mistyped
> message.  These types of bugs would easily be caught in languages that
> have a specific keyword or syntax for declaring variables before use.
> I'm still fairly new to using Python on a more than casual basis, so I
> don't know if Python has anyway to help me out here.

Unit testing, running pylint, pychecker, etc.

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Jorge Godoy      <jgodoy at gmail.com>