pyflakes best practices?

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Sat May 31 13:10:31 EDT 2014


On 30/05/2014 02:14, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article <mailman.10467.1401411041.18130.python-list at python.org>,
>   Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 30/05/2014 01:13, Roy Smith wrote:
>>> We've recently started using pyflakes.  The results seem to be similar
>>> to most tools of this genre.  It found a few real problems.  It
>>> generated a lot of noise about things which weren't really wrong, but
>>> were easy to fix (mostly, unused imports), and a few plain old false
>>> positives which have no easy "fix" (in the sense of, things I can change
>>> which will make pyflakes STFU).
>>>
>>> So, what's the best practice here?  How do people deal with the false
>>> positives?  Is there some way to annotate the source code to tell
>>> pyflakes to ignore something?
>>>
>>
>> I was under the impression that pyflakes was configurable.  It it isn't
>> I'd simply find another tool.  Having said that if you don't get better
>> answers here try gmane.comp.python.code-quality.
>
> I didn't know that list existed, it looks very interesting.  Thanks for
> the pointer!
>

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Mark Lawrence

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