Re: Messages from code analysis tools

2014-11-16 Thread Ned Batchelder
On 11/16/14 8:21 PM, Ben Finney wrote: Ned Batchelder writes: Pylint isn't useful until you've tailored the messages. Definitely agreed. The pylint message that always irked me was: W0142: Used * or ** magic "magic"? They're features of the language! It's a warning, because the us

Re: Messages from code analysis tools (was: Using map())

2014-11-16 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Ben Finney wrote: >> The pylint message that always irked me was: >> >> W0142: Used * or ** magic >> >> "magic"? They're features of the language! > > It's a warning, because the use of that feature clobbers the static code > inspection you've asked for. PyLin