Evaluate coding and style

[Esmail]

Brown, Rodrick wrote:
> I recently started playing with Python about 3 days now (Ex Perl guy) and wanted some input on style and structure of what I'm doing before I really start picking up some bad habits here is a simple test tool I wrote to validate home dirs on my system.
> 
> Please evaluate and let me know what could have been done better. Once again this is really my first time using python.

You may want to check out pylint (& pychecker)

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