[Tutor] Pychecker

[Mike Hansen]

Thanks Danny.

I'll make sure I use pychecker so I don't shoot myself in the foot with not so 
easy to catch typos in variable names and syntax blunders.

I might check with the pychecker devs to see if there's any effort to get it put 
into the standard distribution. I think it's too handy to not have it in the 
standard distribution.

Mike

Danny Yoo wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Danny Yoo wrote:
> 
> 
>>>In Perl, you can perl -c somehardtoreadperlprogram.pl that will just
>>>check the syntax. The above problem would have been caught in Perl
>>>since I always use strict. Is there a command line option in Python to
>>>do a Pychecker-like syntax check?
>>
>>Hi Mike,
>>
>>Unfortunately, no, because there are some really funky things that one
>>can do in Python that you can't do easily in Perl.
> 
> 
> 
> Yikes.  I should correct myself before I get someone angry at me. You can
> do this sort of late-binding stuff in Perl too, and in many other
> languages.  (Java's reflection mechanism is another kind of late-binding
> mechanism, for example.)
> 
> But Python makes it extraordinarly easy --- perhaps too much so.  *grin*
>