[Pylint-dev] Pylint 1.5.0 / Astroid 1.4.1 released

[Sylvain Thénault]

On 01 décembre 01:42, Claudiu Popa wrote:
> Hello,

Hi Claudiu, 

> I'm happy to announce you the release of Pylint 1.5.0,
> respectively Astroid 1.4.1.
> 
> It's been over a year since the last major release
> and the amount of changes that were brought into pylint
> in this time is humongous, with over 30 new checks
> and tons of bug fixes.
> 
> I would like to use this occasion for thanking for their contributions
> the new committers who joined pylint's team in the past months,
> ceridwen and Dmitry, as well as thanking the
> contributors that made this release possible.

Excellent! Congrat to this new core team which have realized a tremendous amount
of work.
 
> Here are some of the major changes of this release:

[...] 

> - We also added a new 'extensions' component, which contains optional
>   checkers that needs to be activated explicitly.
> 
>   These includes 'extensions.check_docs', which verifies a bunch of
>   properties of the docstrings, such as checking that all function,
>   method and constructor parameters are mentioned
>   in the params and types part of the docstring. Also, it checks that
>   there are no naming inconsistencies between the signature and
>   the documentation, i.e. also report documented parameters that are missing
>   in the signature. This is important to find cases where parameters are
>   renamed only in the code, not in the documentation.
> 
>   Activate this checker with:
> 
>       --load-plugins=pylint.extensions.check_docs

To be fair, there is also `pylint.extensions.check_elif` extension
that emit message for 'else: if <test>' that could be written in 'elif <test>'

Regards,
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