[Python-Dev] Direction of PyChecker (original) (raw)

Samuele Pedroni Samuele Pedroni pedroni@inf.ethz.ch
Fri, 10 Aug 2001 17:16:07 +0200 (MET DST)

Hi.

[Neal Norwitz]

> I would like PyChecker to use a fundamentally different way of > scanning modules. I believe that it currently imports the module and > then scans the module's dict for classes and functions, and > analyses their bytecode. That's fragile, dangerous (if you don't know > what a module does you may not want to import it), and sometimes > causes spurious errors, like when I have this at the global level: Yes, this is one of the worst problems I know of. I plan on changing this. Let me know what are your plans about that, will you stick with some bytecode based approach?

I'm consindering the possibility of adding a special mode to jython (based on hooks and on porting the CPython tools/compiler) in which you can retrieve the PVM bytecode of code objects, then there would be still to make PyChecker java classes aware, but it could run under jython. (Don't know when I will get at doing this)

It seems a nice tool, I would like the jython users to be able to use it too.

regards, Samuele Pedroni.