Without compilation, how to find bugs?

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 8:04 PM, BartC <bc at freeuk.com> wrote:
> On 14/10/2016 01:59, sohcahtoa82 at gmail.com wrote:
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>> On Thursday, October 13, 2016 at 4:06:36 PM UTC-7, pozz wrote:
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>>> Are the things exactly how I understood, or do I miss something in
>>> Python?
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>> As others have said, user a linter.
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> With Python you're supposed to just be able run any source code instantly;
> how will using a 'lint' tool impact that process? Or is it only meant to be
> used infrequently?
>

In any serious project (in any language), you should have unit tests.
Python doesn't force you to run those every time you build - nor does
C, nor does any other language. It's up to you how often you run your
tests. Linters are basically just heuristic testing systems - less
precise, but more general. Type checkers in Python are the same.

ChrisA