Am 19.08.15 um 03:35 schrieb Skip Montanaro: > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Claudiu Popa <pcmantic...@gmail.com > <mailto:pcmantic...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > For pylint users, what do you think about the removal of these > reports from pylint? Would it cause problems for you? > Are these reports in any sense useful for you? > > > No problem removing them. > Not really useful in my experience, except very rarely as a relative indicator > of the direction things are moving. > > As a corollary, I will note that some users where I work seemed mesmerized by > high scores (10/10, etc) and relied on them, not being aware that pylint > wasn't > some all-seeing-all-knowing Python code genie. I tried to disabuse them of > that > notion. I think it would be better to remove them and make people (especially > Python newbies) focus on individual messages.
As a Python trainer, I do have contact with many Python beginners. I use pylint in all of my introductory and many of my more advanced courses. Based on feedback from these users, I would suggest: 1. Make all these long-winded metrics and other reports optional, i.e. not default. 2. Keep the score. The score makes it a bit like a game. People really have fun with it. I think for the most part this is a good thing. Of course, there are always a few people who put too much emphasis on the score. But I think the advantages of the score are much bigger the disadvantages. Mike > > Skip > > > > _______________________________________________ > code-quality mailing list > code-quality@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/code-quality > _______________________________________________ code-quality mailing list code-quality@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/code-quality
