Hi there, I'm pretty new to Python and am trying to figure out how to get "will this code compile?"-like code checking. To me this is a pretty basic language/environment requirement, especially when working with large projects. It is *much* better to catch errors at "compile-time" rather than at run-time.
One thing I've "found" is the PyChecker module (conveniently embedded in SPE), but it doesn't seem to do that great of a job. For example, the following simple program checks out perfectly as far as PyChecker is concerned: #---- def tester(a,b,c): print "bogus test function",a,b,c tester(1,2,3) #this runs fine tester(1,2) #this obviously causes a run-time TypeError exception #---- It seems to me that this should be an obvious catch for PyChecker. I suppose you could argue that you don't want PyChecker to bark at you any time an exception would be raised since you may intentionally be causing exceptions, but this one seems a pretty simple and obvious one to catch. My questions are: - Am I missing something with my tester example? - Are there other code-checking options other than PyChecker? Any other comments appreciated (aside from things like "just right good code that doesn't have bugs like that" :) ). Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
