[Python-Dev] PyChecker v0.8 (original) (raw)

Thomas Wouters thomas@xs4all.net
Wed, 8 Aug 2001 13:29:33 +0200

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 08:37:59AM -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:

I just saw another announcement of PyChecker. It's definitely growing to become a very useful (if chatty :-) tool! How about we attempt to fix at least all the real bugs it detects in the standard library, such as the typos in urllib2.py ... Please help!

Well, I'm not sure how you're running it, but Python 2.2 is breaking PyChecker :-) First off, I get a ton of these:

/home/thomas/python/python-CVS/dist/src/Lib/copy.py:303: Object (l) has no attribute (append)

where (from the code) 'l' is obviously a list. The problem is this:

_BUILTINS_ATTRS = { types.StringType : dir(''), types.TypeType : dir(type(0)), types.ListType : dir([]), [etc]

I guess that should now be

def compat_dir(o): return dir(o) or dir(type(o)) # Or perhaps just a switch on python version

_BUILTINS_ATTRS = { types.StringType : compat_dir(''), types.TypeType : compat_dir(type(0)), [etc]

Looking at the error output, I suspect there's some more incompatibilities in there, including one that causes pychecker to stop processing a couple of modules.

-- Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>

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