[openstack-dev] Bring pylint check to gate nova

Yun Mao yunmao at gmail.com
Thu Aug 16 20:16:24 UTC 2012


Interesting, I didn't know that. I thought Cython was for Python->C
compiler/C extensions. Will take a look later. Thanks,

Yun

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Eric Windisch <eric at cloudscaling.com> wrote:
>
> 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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