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On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Michael Barton <
mike-launchpad at weirdlooking.com> wrote:

> I don't want to gate on pylint.  It's a good tool for improving code,
> but it's noisy and I either don't agree with or don't care about a lot
> of stuff it reports on per-commit.
>
> - Mike
>

+1

Projects I've seen try to use pylint always end up spending a lot of time
dealing with the false-positives and excessively pedantic "rules," usually
to the detriment of code readability and developer productivity.

Doug


>
>
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Matt Joyce <matt.joyce at cloudscaling.com>
> wrote:
> > +1 on cython
> >
> > On Aug 16, 2012 1:27 PM, "Eric Windisch" <eric at cloudscaling.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thursday, August 16, 2012 at 16:16 PM, Yun Mao wrote:
> >>
> >> Interesting, I didn't know that. I thought Cython was for Python->C
> >> compiler/C extensions. Will take a look later. Thanks,
> >>
> >> It is, but it can convert any arbitrary Python script into C code using
> >> libpython, it will even frontend gcc for you.
> >>
> >> Because C is strongly typed, this tends to catch bugs, errors, and
> >> omissions in Python code.
> >>
> >> Also, the output it gives on errors tends to be a bit more userfriendly
> >> than pylint and pep8, in my opinion.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Eric Windisch
> >>
> >>
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