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Re: Do you use an python code analyzer?

Paul Hildebrandt — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:37:17 -0000

We require developers to pylint their code on our project. I tried pycheck and pylint and liked pylint better. I like PEP8.py but I don't think I could get the guys here to use it. I do use Eclipse+PyDev (the commercial version, well worth the money). I still run pylint alongside it's checkers. I want to starting running figleaf to check out coverage on our unittest but I just haven't started that yet.

Re: Pythoscope: Unit test generation for Python.

Paul Hildebrandt — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:24:22 -0000

Cool, the project hasn't been out that long and people are already interested. Thanks for blogging about it and posting a test Jesse. Jean-Paul, it looks like pythoscope doesn't handle nested classes. I guess that's okay for a 0.2.1 release. I've entered a bug on lunchpad:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/pythoscope/+bug/260924
With a simplified test case.

Paul

Re: Now I have a reason to use staticmethod

Paul Hildebrandt — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:24:22 -0000

Nice post. I was wondering about some good uses for staticmethod.

Thanks,
Paul

Re: Instead of setting instance attributes within init

Paul Hildebrandt — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:07:04 -0000

Seems like a lot of mechanism. If the goal is to reduce the size of __init__ why not use a function like
def __init_vars(self):
self.a=1
self.b=2
and call that from the __init__ function.

In both cases I would worry about tools not understanding what is going on. Pulling the variable initialization out of the __init__ function will fool programs like pylint and doxygen.

I would probably just create sections in my __init__ like:

def __init(self):
#
# Variable
#
self.a=1
self.b=2

#
# Object setup
#
do interesting stuff here

But then again I do a lot of support programming and I like boring simple programs. They make it easier for me to understand.

Disqus - Latest Comments for Paul Hildebrandt

Re: Do you use an python code analyzer?

Re: Pythoscope: Unit test generation for Python.

Re: Now I have a reason to use staticmethod

Re: Instead of setting instance attributes within __init__

Re: Instead of setting instance attributes within init