[openstack-dev] Bring pylint check to gate nova

Eric Windisch eric at cloudscaling.com
Thu Aug 16 19:00:42 UTC 2012



On Thursday, August 16, 2012 at 14:15 PM, Yun Mao wrote:

> Pylint is a python static analysis tool to help you find bugs. It was
> part of the gating test long time ago but was abandoned due to the
> cumulative high false positives. However, I believe it still has its
> values. For example, I was able to use it to find many bugs,
> especially for those big refactor commits.
> 
> 
> 


I've mentioned it on the list before, but it is worth reminding that Cython is another good tool for finding errors and mistakes.

It tends to catch more problems that Pylint does, such as raise statements without an argument outside of an 'except' block.

Regards,
Eric Windisch

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