How to avoid "f.close" (no parens) bug?
Peter Hansen
peter at engcorp.com
Wed Feb 11 12:31:49 EST 2004
Skip Montanaro wrote:
>
> Facundo> #- Warnings...
> Facundo> #-
> Facundo> #- foo.py:4: Statement appears to have no effect
>
> Facundo> Why "appears"?
>
> I think Neal was just being conservative when he wrote that. In fact, today
> with properties and such, just the act of getting an attribute can have side
> effects. Determining for sure that there were no side effects would
> probably require a lot more analysis, if it's even possible to determine
> without actually executing the code.
Or one might say he wrote that from the point of view of a code
reviewer experienced with Python. Yes, the statement *appears* to
have no effect, and therefore if it really does have an effect it
is a surprising result, and certainly something PyChecker should
be pointing out in case it was in fact wrong.
-Peter
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