On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 10:33 AM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> writes: > >> (Sometimes, you just need another pair of eyes.) > > In many cases, those eyes can be virtual and non-human. > > That's what syntax highlighting, and tools even more impressive (e.g. > linting tools that run continually), offer in a programmer's text > editor: a pair of eyes looking for mistakes while you type. >
Often true, but not always. What would often be useful, but I've not usually (ever?) seen, is a linter rule that continuation lines MUST be indented further than the initial line. That would catch this problem, because the "return" line is being misparsed as a continuation line, but it's indented far less. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
