Hello all ! I'm pleased to announce a new release of PyLint. I've been promising a 1.0 release some time ago, but it appears I've not enough time yet to do the polishing I wish, and since the latest (0.6.4) release has a few really annoying bugs (mainly related to options handling), I eventually decided to make this intermediate release. It mainly targets bug fixes but as the main pylint package has moved (it's not anymore a logilab'subpackage), I've made a 0.7 instead of a 0.6.5. Some others fixes and minor enhancements are included (see below for a more detailed list), and this release should be really stable. Please send any bugs or comments on the mailing list.
What's new ? ------------ * WARNING: pylint is no longer a logilab subpackage. Users may have to manually remove the old logilab/pylint directory. * this time, real fix of the "disable-msg in the config file" problem, test added to unittest_lint * fix a bug in the variables checker which may causing some false positives when variables are defined and used within the same statement (test func_noerror_defined_and_used_on_same_line) * fix bug with --list-messages and python -OO * fix possible false positive for W0201 * introduce a new --additional-builtins option to handle user defined builtins * --reports option has now -r as short alias, and -i for --include-ids What is pylint ? ---------------- Pylint is a python tool that checks if a module satisfy a coding standard. Pylint can be seen as another pychecker since nearly all tests you can do with pychecker can also be done with Pylint. But Pylint offers some more features, like checking line-code's length, checking if variable names are well-formed according to your coding standard, or checking if declared interfaces are truly implemented, and much more (see http://www.logilab.org/projects/pylint/ for the complete check list). The big advantage with Pylint is that it is highly configurable, customizable, and you can easily write a small plugin to add a personal feature. The usage it quite simple : $ pylint mypackage.mymodule This command will output all the errors and warnings related to the tested code (here : mypackage.mymodule), will dump a little summary at the end, and will give a mark to the tested code. Pylint is free software distributed under the GNU Public Licence. Home page --------- http://www.logilab.org/projects/pylint Download -------- ftp://ftp.logilab.org/pub/pylint Mailing list ------------ mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enjoy ! -- 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