[Python-porting] Pylint checkers for Python 2/3 compatibility

[Brett Cannon]

Not that I know of. I think it's locally inferred. I have yet to use any
type information, just scope details.

On Sat, Jul 26, 2014, 11:32 Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> Is there a write-up somewhere of the strengths and weaknesses of pylint's
> type checking?
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 7:59 AM, Brett Cannon <bcannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
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>> On Fri Jul 25 2014 at 5:13:47 PM Aaron Meurer <asmeurer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> How smart are the checkers, relative to, say, the sorts of things that
>>> 2to3 looks for (or modernize or futurize)?
>>>
>>
>> They are smarter as the checkers have more information (e.g. is this a
>> method and not a function, is this a built-in and not just something named
>> 'map').
>>
>> -Brett
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Aaron Meurer
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Brett Cannon <bcannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > I think I've reached beta quality for caniusepython3 3.0.0 where I have
>>> > implemented custom Pylint checkers for various things that will break
>>> in
>>> > Python 3 (e.g. referencing built-ins that are removed or have different
>>> > semantics, etc.). The goal with the checkers is for projects to use
>>> them
>>> > after running modernize(3k) or futurize on their code to prevent
>>> regressing
>>> > their Python 2/3 source-compatibility.
>>> >
>>> > The code can be found at
>>> > https://github.com/brettcannon/caniusepython3/tree/pylint . Feedback
>>> is
>>> > welcome before I make an official release.
>>> >
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