pyflakes, pylint, pychecker - and other tools

[Colin J. Williams]

Esmail wrote:
> What is the consensus of the Python community regarding these
> code checkers?
> 
> In particular, are the stylistic recommendations that
> pylint makes considered sensible/valid?

pylint seems a bit heavy handled, a bit 
too much PEP 8, which was intended as a 
guide, rather than a prescription.

Colin W.

> 
> Are there any other tools you consider essential to Python
> development?
> 
> Thanks.
> Esmail
>