[Python-Dev] ACCEPTED: PEP 285 (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Wed, 03 Apr 2002 19:59:09 -0500

Neal just posted that PyChecker deals with it, which is great, but I don't think that PyChecker is enough - until PyChecker is part of the standard distribution and integrated with e.g. the interactive shell, I think that PyChecker is not likely to be used by novices. And we're talking about novices here, right?

Yeah, but I think we should only complain about comparisons to bool that use the literals (as opposed to "if x == y" where either x or y happens to be a bool). A run-time warning can't really do that.

Come to think of it, getting PyChecker integrated w/ the interactive shell would be great! Hard, I suspect, but great!

Certainly better than running tabnanny. :-)

I'm not even sure how hard it would be to add this to IDLE -- pychecker is already a module. Maybe Neal will enjoy this challenge?

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