On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 19:45:55 -0800, Dan Stromberg wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 21:47:32 -0800, Dan Stromberg wrote: >> >>> Did you have some sort of bad experience with pylint? Do you resent >>> the 20 minutes it takes to set it up? >> >> If you read my post more carefully and less defensively, you'll see >> that nothing I said was *opposed* to the use of pylint, merely that >> pylint is not a substitute of a good, thorough test suite. > > Actually, I mentioned the value of pylint. Then you asked me if my unit > tests were broken. > > What would you infer from such a question?
That I believed that you are using pylint as a substitute for unit tests, instead of in conjunction with unit tests. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list