On Oct 3, 5:38 pm, Pat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been searching for a good multi-module lint checker for Python and > I haven't found one yet. > > Pylint does a decent job at checking for errors only within a single module. > > Here's one of my problems. I have two modules. > > 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. I'm > quite surprised that Python is being used by a number of major > companies. How you catch these types of errors? > > I've spoken to tech support at Wing and they weren't aware of a > multi-module lint but they're considering putting their own lint into > their IDE. > > Thank you
I doubt you will find a tool that can find that kind of error(at least not reliably), python is a highly dynamic language, and so foo() can easily be reassigned at any point in the execution. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
