Great feedback. We will need to investigate this some more to see what exactly the python's compiler package requires in terms of built-in modules. For now I opened CodePlex bug 563 so that we can include this important feature in our planning.
Martin -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Foord Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 7:10 AM To: Discussion of IronPython Subject: [IronPython] Code Quality Tools Hello all, At Resolver we are looking into tools that we can use to provide simple code hygiene checks. Check we're not shadowing built-in names, check for unneeded import statements and unused variables; that sort of thing. I know of three Python modules that do this. They all fail unredeemably on IronPython : * PyLint Uses the compiler.ast module extensively * PyChecker Does bytecode analysis * PyFlakes Uses compiler.parse (See also the previous email about coverage tools not working on IronPython because "sys.settrace" is not implemented.) We can use PyFlakes from CPython (and possbily PyLint- but not PyChecker because it executes code), but that means our test code is dependent on CPython. So there are no native code quality tools that will work with IronPython. This could be a barrier to entry for some projects who consider using IronPython. I realise it is not going to be high up the priority list, but if a solution to this was possible it would be good. One possibility is a pure Python ports of the parser module (which should get the compiler and compiler.ast modules working). There is a tool called EasyExtend which can generate CSTs in Pure Python, so it could be possible to convert one of the existing tools to use this. All the best, Michael Foord http://www.resolversystems.com http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
