Re: pylint naming conventions?

2009-06-09 Thread Esmail
R. David Murray wrote: Well, I for one looked at that long pylint output when I first tried it, and switched to another tool :) (pyflakes...but I don't think it does PEP 8) :-) Ok, so I'm not the only one who thinks the output is rather lengthy. I've since dug into the docs and searched on

Re: pylint naming conventions?

2009-06-08 Thread Esmail
Hi David, David Stanek wrote: It is my understanding that it does check for PEP8 names. Even if it doesn't it is really easy to change. If you run 'pylint --generate-rcfile' (i think) it will output the configuration that it is using. You can then save this off and customize it. Thanks, I'll

Re: pylint naming conventions?

2009-06-08 Thread Esmail
Ben Finney wrote: My understanding of Esmail's original message was that, like many of us on first running ‘pylint’ against an existing code base, the output is astonishingly verbose and tedious to read. By the above I presume he's being a good forum member and trying to find a minimal example

Re: pylint naming conventions?

2009-06-08 Thread R. David Murray
Esmail ebo...@hotmail.com wrote: Ben Finney wrote: My understanding of Esmail's original message was that, like many of us on first running ‘pylint’ against an existing code base, the output is astonishingly verbose and tedious to read. By the above I presume he's being a good forum

Re: pylint naming conventions?

2009-06-07 Thread Esmail
Ben Finney wrote: Esmail ebo...@hotmail.com writes: I am confused by pylint's naming conventions, I don't think the are in tune with Python's style recommendations (PEP 8?) Anyone else think this? It's hard to know, without examples. Can you give some output of pylint that you think doesn't

Re: pylint naming conventions?

2009-06-07 Thread David Stanek
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Esmailebo...@hotmail.com wrote: Ben Finney wrote: Esmail ebo...@hotmail.com writes: I am confused by pylint's naming conventions, I don't think the are in tune with Python's style recommendations (PEP 8?) Anyone else think this? It's hard to know, without

Re: pylint naming conventions?

2009-06-07 Thread Ben Finney
David Stanek dsta...@dstanek.com writes: On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Esmailebo...@hotmail.com wrote: I'll try to come up with a nice short code example in the next few days to demonstrate what I think the problem is and post it, thanks for the suggestion. If you didn't have an

pylint naming conventions?

2009-06-05 Thread Esmail
Hi, as someone who is still learning a lot about Python I am making use of all the tools that can help me, such as pyflakes, pychecker and pylint. I am confused by pylint's naming conventions, I don't think the are in tune with Python's style recommendations (PEP 8?) Anyone else think this? Is

Re: pylint naming conventions?

2009-06-05 Thread Ben Finney
Esmail ebo...@hotmail.com writes: I am confused by pylint's naming conventions, I don't think the are in tune with Python's style recommendations (PEP 8?) Anyone else think this? It's hard to know, without examples. Can you give some output of pylint that you think doesn't agree with PEP 8?