a couple of questions: pickling objects and strict types

[John Gordon]

In <mailman.159.1365188823.3114.python-list at python.org> "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler at tysdomain.com> writes:

> Hello all:
> I've been using Python for a while now, but I have one larger problem.
> I come from a c++ background; though it doesn't help in catching runtime 
> errors, being able to compile a program helps catch a lot of syntax 
> errors. I know about pychecker, which is somewhat useful. Do people have 
> other methods for handling this?

The py_compile module can catch some obvious syntax errors, such as
incorrect indentation levels or a missing colon at the end of an if
statement.

But it won't catch other errors such as using a variable name before it's
defined.  For that, you can use an external program such as pylint or
pyflakes.

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