Pat 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
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The example you gave is specific. You could catch that one by hand. But, would it hurt, perhaps by causing neglect of other errors; and would it be worth the effort? And, if you're using any dynamics at all, catching that one's even in question.

from mod import foo
bar= foo
bar( arg1, arg2 )

It would add difficulty to catching by hand. Same with variable argument lists.

from mod import foo
args= ( arg1, arg2 )
foo( *args )

If you could knock off an error and ignore the false positives, that might be worth an afternoon.



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