Michael Yanowitz escribió: > Hello: > > I ran the new pylint and my code and I had a few questions on why those > are warnings or what I can do to fix them: >
> 2) C: 0: Missing required attribute "__revision__" > What is this? Is that for CVS? I don't use CVS (we use SVN). I have not > seen any sample code which includes this tag yet. But if I include > __revision 1.0 somewhere in the code it will remove that warning? try it and see what happens > 3) W:230:readDiscreteData: Using the global statement > What is wrong with using the global statement? I know the use of Globals > should be discouraged, but often they can't be avoided. > Suppose I have a constant. In C or C++, I could just use a #define and > it would be known throughout the whole file. In Python, there isn't a > similar construct, so rather than creating a large parameter list, of > constants, I like to use globals. * define all your constants in a separate module constants.py, then: from constants import * * add the constants to __builtins__ __builtins__.constant_name = value this approach is a bit tricky > 4) W:261:getDiscreteData: Catch "Exception" > What is wrong with that? cause you're masquerading *all* exceptions, this could be potentially dangerous > 6) R:722:waitDiscretes: Too many local variables (38/15) > That's new to me. What is wrong with too many local variables? > Can anything be done to improve that besides having too many globals? too many local variables probably means "too complex function, split it in smaller functions" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list