In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Pat wrote: > In module one, I have a function: > > def foo( host, userid, password ): > pass > > In module two, I call that function: > > foo( userid, password) > > lint doesn't find that error and it won't be caught until it's called > while the program is running. I don't want that error found at 3AM. > > I've never used a language that didn't catch that type of error.
Because in Python, it's not necessarily an error. Every name you define in Python is just a variable, and can have its value changed at any time: the compiler can't tell that foo won't have a different value put into it between the definition of the function and the actual call. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
