On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 02:03:12 +0000, Bob Parnes wrote: > In its default configuration, my version of pylint (0.5.0) sets the > maximum number of class attributes at 7. This seems low to me, but I can > see how an excessive number might make maintenance more difficult. Is this > indeed the best value for a maximum under ordinary conditions? If not, can > anyone suggest a more reasonable value?
well, this value is very subjective, and may change from one context to another... For instance at some point I hope that pylint will detect "GUI" classes and allow more attributes (and methods?) to those. Anyway that's just an indicator, not a rule of thumb (and pylint itself has some class with more than 7 attributes...). And FYI, this value has been taken from a post to the testdrivendevelopment at yahoogroups (as most others default values in the "design analysis" checker). Hum, well... After checking it seems that the post said 20 attributes. I don't remember why did i get this number down to 7. If this discussion leads to an agreement for a better number, I can change the default value. -- Sylvain Thénault LOGILAB, Paris (France). http://www.logilab.com http://www.logilab.fr http://www.logilab.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
