Highlighting program variables instead of keywords?

[Mark Lawrence]

On 27/01/2014 01:46, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>> What it is doing is color coding user-supplied identifiers, with different
>> color for each one. I found that confusing to read.
>
> I think it would take some time to get used to, and I don't think it
> would be the only way I'd like to view my program.
>
> I think an interactive pylint (or pyflakes or frosty) type capability
> would be useful, highlighting a subset of the messages it produces,
> like variables which were assigned but never used, or using undefined
> variables. It might be best supported by actually running the checker
> in the background, then using its messages to direct where to
> highlight suspect bits of code.
>
> Skip
>

Pydev uses pylint interactively, must have saved me hours by flagging up 
(potential) problems up as I type.

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Mark Lawrence