> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of wesley chun > Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 12:51 AM > To: Chris Lasher > Cc: Python Tutor > Subject: Re: [Tutor] Equivalent to perl -e > > > His lab maintains a significant amount of Perl code > > this sounds like a full-time job on its own. everyone brings up a > good point... use the right tool for the job. if it's one-liners, > that's what perl -e is made for. for everything else that you > mentioned above, Python is the the one, preferably the only one > --obvious way to do it. :-) > > one perl'y thing that i *do* use is perl -c, for checking your syntax. > i don't believe there's an equivalent way to do that from the Python > cmd-line (correct me if i'm wrong!), but i wrote up a short script I > called (pydashc.py) which just uses compile() to get the same > effect... very useful for when i don't want to *run* something to see > if i made any typos. > > regards, > -- wesley
I had this same issue when I moved from Perl to Python. You might take a look at pyflakes, pychecker, or pylint. Mike _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
