Thank you! At the moment python3 isn't an option. There's a variety of dependencies I'm working around. Is there any type of 2.x add-on?
either way thanks for the info L On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Lucas Vickers <lucasvick...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm relatively new to Python. I come from C/C++ so I love the > flexibility > > but I am slightly irked by the lack of compilation time checking. > > > > I've got two questions > > 1) Are there any tools that do an analysis of code and attempt to catch > > potential issues such as undefined variables, etc? I use xdebug in php > for > > this purpose and it's a life saver. Currently for Python I use module > test > > cases and simulate situations but this doesn't catch everything and on a > > larger scale of development becomes difficult. > > Yes, try pylint, pychecker, or pyflakes. > > > > > 2) Is there a way to error when comparing variables of different types? > I > > was up late last night coding and caused a few bugs with the below code, > > which turns out to compare a type<str> to a type<int>. I know good > > programming I should know what my variable types are, but it would be > even > > better if I could always abide by a rule of using <_ (or something) which > > would spit an exception when comparing non-equal types/instances. > > This is a well-known wart in Python 2. The recommended solution would > be to upgrade to Python 3, which no longer allows ordered comparisons > between unrelated built-in types. > > Cheers, > Ian >
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