Re: [gentoo-user] package.keywords syntax?

[Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org>]

On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 16:54 -0200, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
> > To back myself up:
> >
> > <file name="why_no.py">
> > #!/usr/bin/python
> >
> > import random
> >
> > for i in range(1,10000):
> >        if random.random() < 0.001:
> >                print "rare"
> >                if malformed < beast:
> >                        print "kick me in the ..."
> >        else:
> >                print "whatever"
> > </file>
> This kind of error is not a syntax error; this kind of error is indeed
> only discovered at runtime. However, syntax errors are discovered at
> byte-compile time. byte-compile happens automatically when you load a
> module, but you can perform it yourself easily, and this is
> recommended in certain situations.
> 
> For this kind of error (try to reference an undefined variable), there
> are tools like pychecker.
> 

I'm coming into this thread kinda late, so feel free to ignore...

... but Jorge is right.  This is easily picked up by a lint tool... and
good python programmers use them ;-).  Some python-aware editors even
have this functionality built in.

Using the above example:

        $ pylint who_no.py
        ...
        C:  1: Missing docstring
        C:  5: Comma not followed by a space
        for i in range(1,10000):
                        ^^
        E:  8: Undefined variable 'malformed'
        E:  8: Undefined variable 'beast'