What's New in Pylint 0.28.0?¶
Release date: 2013-04-25
bitbucket #1: fix "dictionary changed size during iteration" crash
#74013: new E1310[bad-str-strip-call] message warning when a call to a {l,r,}strip method contains duplicate characters (patch by Torsten Marek)
#123233: new E0108[duplicate-argument-name] message reporting duplicate argument names
#81378: emit W0120[useless-else-on-loop] for loops without break
#124660: internal dependencies should not appear in external dependencies report
#124662: fix name error causing crash when symbols are included in output messages
#123285: apply pragmas for warnings attached to lines to physical source code lines
#123259: do not emit E0105 for yield expressions inside lambdas
#123892: don't crash when attempting to show source code line that can't be encoded with the current locale settings
Simplify checks for dangerous default values by unifying tests for all different mutable compound literals.
Improve the description for E1124[redundant-keyword-arg]
What's New in Pylint 0.27.0?¶
Release date: 2013-02-26
#20693: replace pylint.el by Ian Eure version (patch by J.Kotta)
#105327: add support for --disable=all option and deprecate the 'disable-all' inline directive in favour of 'skip-file' (patch by A.Fayolle)
#110840: add messages I0020 and I0021 for reporting of suppressed messages and useless suppression pragmas. (patch by Torsten Marek)
#112728: add warning E0604 for non-string objects in __all__ (patch by Torsten Marek)
#120657: add warning W0110/deprecated-lambda when a map/filter of a lambda could be a comprehension (patch by Martin Pool)
#113231: logging checker now looks at instances of Logger classes in addition to the base logging module. (patch by Mike Bryant)
#111799: don't warn about octal escape sequence, but warn about o which is not octal in Python (patch by Martin Pool)
#110839: bind <F5> to Run button in pylint-gui
#115580: fix erroneous W0212 (access to protected member) on super call (patch by Martin Pool)
#110853: fix a crash when an __init__ method in a base class has been created by assignment rather than direct function definition (patch by Torsten Marek)
#110838: fix pylint-gui crash when include-ids is activated (patch by Omega Weapon)
#112667: fix emission of reimport warnings for mixed imports and extend the testcase (patch by Torsten Marek)
#112698: fix crash related to non-inferable __all__ attributes and invalid __all__ contents (patch by Torsten Marek)
Python 3 related fixes:
- #110213: fix import of checkers broken with python 3.3, causing
"No such message id W0704" breakage
#120635: redefine cmp function used in pylint.reporters
Include full warning id for I0020 and I0021 and make sure to flush warnings after each module, not at the end of the pylint run. (patch by Torsten Marek)
Changed the regular expression for inline options so that it must be preceded by a # (patch by Torsten Marek)
Make dot output for import graph predictable and not depend on ordering of strings in hashes. (patch by Torsten Marek)
Add hooks for import path setup and move pylint's sys.path modifications into them. (patch by Torsten Marek)
What's New in Pylint 0.26.0?¶
Release date: 2012-10-05
#106534: add --ignore-imports option to code similarity checking and 'symilar' command line tool (patch by Ry4an Brase)
#104571: check for anomalous backslash escape, introducing new W1401 and W1402 messages (patch by Martin Pool)
#100707: check for boolop being used as exception class, introducing new W0711 message (patch by Tim Hatch)
#4014: improve checking of metaclass methods first args, introducing new C0204 message (patch by lothiraldan@gmail.com finalized by sthenault)
#4685: check for consistency of a module's __all__ variable, introducing new E0603 message
#105337: allow custom reporter in output-format (patch by Kevin Jing Qiu)
#104420: check for protocol completeness and avoid false R0903 (patch by Peter Hammond)
#100654: fix grammatical error for W0332 message (using 'l' as long int identifier)
#103656: fix W0231 false positive for missing call to object.__init__ (patch by lothiraldan@gmail.com)
#63424: fix similarity report disabling by properly renaming it to RP0801
#103949: create a console_scripts entry point to be used by easy_install, buildout and pip
fix cross-interpreter issue (non compatible access to __builtins__)
stop including tests files in distribution, they causes crash when installed with python3 (#72022, #82417, #76910)
What's New in Pylint 0.25.2?¶
Release date: 2012-07-17
#93591: Correctly emit warnings about clobbered variable names when an except handler contains a tuple of names instead of a single name. (patch by tmarek@google.com)
#7394: W0212 (access to protected member) not emitted on assignments (patch by lothiraldan@gmail.com)
#18772; no prototype consistency check for mangled methods (patch by lothiraldan@gmail.com)
#92911: emit W0102 when sets are used as default arguments in functions (patch by tmarek@google.com)
#77982: do not emit E0602 for loop variables of comprehensions used as argument values inside a decorator (patch by tmarek@google.com)
#89092: don't emit E0202 (attribute hiding a method) on @property methods
#92584: fix pylint-gui crash due to internal API change
#87192: fix crash when decorators are accessed through more than one dot (for instance @a.b is fine, @a.b.c crash)
#88914: fix parsing of --generated-members options, leading to crash when using a regexp value set
fix potential crashes with utils.safe_infer raising InferenceError
What's New in Pylint 0.25.1?¶
Release date: 2011-12-08
#81078: Warn if names in exception handlers clobber overwrite existing names (patch by tmarek@google.com)
#81113: Fix W0702 messages appearing with the wrong line number. (patch by tmarek@google.com)
#50461, #52020, #51222: Do not issue warnings when using 2.6's property.setter/deleter functionality (patch by dneil@google.com)
#9188, #4024: Do not trigger W0631 if a loop variable is assigned in the else branch of a for loop.
What's New in Pylint 0.25.0?¶
Release date: 2011-10-7
#74742: make allowed name for first argument of class method configurable (patch by Google)
#74087: handle case where inference of a module return YES; this avoid some cases of "TypeError: '_Yes' object does not support indexing" (patch by Google)
#74745: make "too general" exception names configurable (patch by Google)
#74747: crash occurs when lookup up a special attribute in class scope (patch by google)
#76920: crash if on e.g. "pylint --rcfile" (patch by Torsten Marek)
#77237: warning for E0202 may be very misleading
#73941: HTML report messages table is badly rendered
What's New in Pylint 0.24.0?¶
Release date: 2011-07-18
#69738: add regular expressions support for "generated-members"
ids of logging and string_format checkers have been changed: logging: 65 -> 12, string_format: 99 -> 13 Also add documentation to say that ids of range 1-50 shall be reserved to pylint internal checkers
#69993: Additional string format checks for logging module: check for missing arguments, too many arguments, or invalid string formats in the logging checker module. Contributed by Daniel Arena
#69220: add column offset to the reports. If you've a custom reporter, this change may break it has now location gain a new item giving the column offset.
#60828: Fix false positive in reimport check
#70495: absolute imports fail depending on module path (patch by Jacek Konieczny)
#22273: Fix --ignore option documentation to match reality
What's New in Pylint 0.23.0?¶
Release date: 2011-01-11
documentation update, add manpages
several performance improvements
finalize python3 support
new W0106 warning 'Expression "%s" is assigned to nothing'
drop E0501 and E0502 messages about wrong source encoding: not anymore interesting since it's a syntax error for python >= 2.5 and we now only support this python version and above.
don't emit W0221 or W0222 when methods as variable arguments (e.g. *arg and/or **args). Patch submitted by Charles Duffy.
What's New in Pylint 0.22.0?¶
Release date: 2010-11-15
python versions: minimal python3.x support; drop python < 2.5 support
What's New in Pylint 0.21.4?¶
Release date: 2010-10-27
fix #48066: pylint crashes when redirecting output containing non-ascii characters
fix #19799: "pylint -blah" exit with status 2
update documentation
What's New in Pylint 0.21.3?¶
Release date: 2010-09-28
restored python 2.3 compatibility. Along with logilab-astng 0.21.3 and logilab-common 0.52, this will much probably be the latest release supporting python < 2.5.
What's New in Pylint 0.21.2?¶
Release date: 2010-08-26
fix #36193: import checker raise exception on cyclic import
fix #28796: regression in --generated-members introduced pylint 0.20
some documentation cleanups
What's New in Pylint 0.21.1?¶
Release date: 2010-06-04
fix #28962: pylint crash with new options, due to missing stats data while writing the Statistics by types report
updated man page to 0.21 or greater command line usage (fix debian #582494)
What's New in Pylint 0.21.0?¶
Release date: 2010-05-11
command line updated (closes #9774, #9787, #9992, #22962):
all enable-* / disable-* options have been merged into --enable / --disable
BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: short name of --errors-only becomes -E, -e being affected to --enable
pylint --help output much simplified, with --long-help available to get the complete one
revisited gui, thanks to students from Toronto university (they are great contributors to this release!)
fix #21591: html reporter produces no output if reports is set to 'no'
fix #4581: not Missing docstring (C0111) warning if a method is overridden
fix #4683: Non-ASCII characters count double if utf8 encode
fix #9018: when using defining-attr-method, method order matters
fix #4595: Comma not followed by a space should not occurs on trailing comma in list/tuple/dict definition
fix #22585: [Patch] fix man warnings for pyreverse.1 manpage
fix #20067: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'name' with with
What's New in Pylint 0.20.0?¶
Release date: 2010-03-01
fix #19498: fix windows batch file
fix #19339: pylint.el : non existing py-mod-map (closes Debian Bug report logs - #475939)
implement #18860, new W0199 message on assert (a, b)
implement #9776, 'W0150' break or return statement in finally block may swallow exception.
fix #9263, __init__ and __new__ are checked for unused arguments
fix #20991, class scope definitions ignored in a genexpr
fix #5975, Abstract intermediate class not recognized as such
fix #5977, yield and return statement have their own counters, no more R0911 (Too many return statements) when a function have many yield stamtements
implement #5564, function / method arguments with leading "_" are ignored in arguments / local variables count.
implement #9982, E0711 specific error message when raising NotImplemented
remove --cache-size option
What's New in Pylint 0.19.0?¶
Release date: 2009-12-18
implement #18947, #5561: checker for function arguments
include James Lingard string format checker
include simple message (ids) listing by Vincent Ferotin (#9791)
--errors-only does not hide fatal error anymore
include james Lingard patches for ++/-- and duplicate key in dicts
include James Lingard patches for function call arguments checker
improved Flymake code and doc provided by Derek Harland
refactor and fix the imports checker
fix #18862: E0601 false positive with lambda functions
fix #8764: More than one statement on a single line false positive with try/except/finally
fix #9215: false undefined variable error in lambda function
fix for w0108 false positive (Nathaniel)
fix test/fulltest.sh
#5821 added a utility function to run pylint in another process (patch provide by Vincent Ferotin)
What's New in Pylint 0.18.0?¶
Release date: 2009-03-25
tests ok with python 2.4, 2.5, 2.6. 2.3 not tested
fix #8687, W0613 false positive on inner function
fix #8350, C0322 false positive on multi-line string
fix #8332: set E0501 line no to the first line where non ascii character has been found
avoid some E0203 / E0602 false negatives by detecting respectively AttributeError / NameError
implements #4037: don't issue W0142 (* or ** magic) when they are barely passed from /* arguments
complete #5573: more complete list of special methods, also skip W0613 for python internal method
don't show information messages by default
integration of Yuen Ho Wong's patches on Emacs lisp files
What's New in Pylint 0.17.0?¶
Release date: 2009-03-19
semicolon check : move W0601 to W0301
remove rpython : remove all rpython checker, modules and tests
astng 0.18 compatibility: support for _ast module modifies interfaces
What's New in Pylint 0.16.0?¶
Release date: 2009-01-28
change [en|dis]able-msg-cat options: only accept message categories identified by their first letter (e.g. IRCWEF) without the need for comma as separator
add epylint.bat script to fix Windows installation
setuptools/easy_install support
include a modified version of Maarten ter Huurne patch to avoid W0613 warning on arguments from overridden method
implement #5575 drop dumb W0704 message) by adding W0704 to ignored messages by default
new W0108 message, checking for suspicious lambda (provided by Nathaniel Manista)
fix W0631, false positive reported by Paul Hachmann
fix #6951: false positive with W0104
fix #6949
patches by Mads Kiilerich:
implement #4691, make pylint exits with a non zero return status if any messages other then Information are issued
fix #3711, #5626 (name resolution bug w/ decorator and class members)
fix #6954
What's New in Pylint 0.15.2?¶
Release date: 2008-10-13
fix #5672: W0706 weirdness ( W0706 removed )
fix #5998: documentation points to wrong url for mailing list
fix #6022: no error message on wrong module names
fix #6040: pytest doesn't run test/func_test.py
What's New in Pylint 0.15.1?¶
Release date: 2008-09-15
fix #4910: default values are missing in manpage
fix #5991: missing files in 0.15.0 tarball
fix #5993: epylint should work with python 2.3
What's New in Pylint 0.15.0?¶
Release date: 2008-09-10
include pyreverse package and class diagram generation
included Stefan Rank's patch to deal with 2.4 relative import
included Robert Kirkpatrick's tutorial and typos fixes
fix bug in reenabling message
fix #2473: invoking pylint on __init__.py (hopefully)
typecheck: acquired-members option has been dropped in favor of the more generic generated-members option. If the zope option is set, the behaviour is now to add some default values to generated-members.
Flymake integration: added bin/epylint and elisp/pylint-flymake.el
What's New in Pylint 0.14.0?¶
Release date: 2008-01-14
fix #3733: Messages (dis)appear depending on order of file names
fix #4026: pylint.el should require compile
fix a bug in colorized reporter, spotted by Dave Borowitz
applied patch from Stefan Rank to avoid W0410 false positive when multiple "from __future__" import statements
implement #4012: flag back tick as deprecated (new W0333 message)
new ignored-class option on typecheck checker allowing to skip members checking based on class name (patch provided by Thomas W Barr)
What's New in Pylint 0.13.2?¶
Release date: 2007-06-07
fix disable-checker option so that it won't accidentally enable the rpython checker which is disabled by default
added note about the gedit plugin into documentation
What's New in Pylint 0.13.1?¶
Release date: 2007-03-02
fix some unexplained 0.13.0 packaging issue which led to a bunch of files missing from the distribution
What's New in Pylint 0.13.0?¶
Release date: 2007-02-28
new RPython (Restricted Python) checker for PyPy fellow or people wanting to get a compiled version of their python program using the translator of the PyPy project. For more information about PyPy or RPython, visit https://www.pypy.org, previously codespeak.net/pypy/
new E0104 and E0105 messages introduced to respectively warn about "return" and "yield" outside function or method
new E0106 message when "yield" and "return something" are mixed in a function or method
new W0107 message for unnecessary pass statement
new W0614 message to differentiate between unused
import Xand unused from X import * (#3209, patch submitted by Daniel Drake)included Daniel Drake's patch to have a different message E1003 instead of E1001 when a missing member is found but an inference failure has been detected
msvs reporter for Visual Studio line number reporting (#3285)
allow disable-all option inline (#3218, patch submitted by Daniel Drake)
--init-hook option to call arbitrary code necessary to set environment (e.g. sys.path) (#3156)
One more Daniel's patch fixing a command line option parsing problem, this'll definitely be the DDrake release :)
fix #3184: crashes on "return" outside function
fix #3205: W0704 false positive
fix #3123: W0212 false positive on static method
fix #2485: W0222 false positive
fix #3259: when a message is explicitly enabled, check the checker emitting it is enabled
What's New in Pylint 0.12.2?¶
Release date: 2006-11-23
fix #3143: W0233 bug w/ YES objects
fix #3119: Off-by-one error counting lines in a file
fix #3117: ease sys.stdout overriding for reporters
fix #2508: E0601 false positive with lambda
fix #3125: E1101 false positive and a message duplication. Only the last part is actually fixed since the initial false positive is due to dynamic setting of attributes on the decimal.Context class.
fix #3149: E0101 false positives and introduced E0100 for generator __init__ methods
fixed some format checker false positives
What's New in Pylint 0.12.1?¶
Release date: 2006-09-25
fixed python >= 2.4 format false positive with multiple lines statement
fixed some 2.5 issues
fixed generator expression scope bug (depends on astng 0.16.1)
stop requiring __revision__
What's New in Pylint 0.12.0?¶
Release date: 2006-08-10
usability changes:
parseable, html and color options are now handled by a single output-format option
enable-<checkerid> and disable-all options are now handled by two (exclusive) enable-checker and disable-checker options taking a comma separated list of checker names as value
renamed debug-mode option to errors-only
started a reference user manual
new W0212 message for access to protected member from client code (Closes #14081)
new W0105 and W0106 messages extracted from W0104 (statement seems to have no effect) respectively when the statement is actually string (that's sometimes used instead of comments for documentation) or an empty statement generated by a useless semicolon
reclassified W0302 to C0302
fix so that global messages are not anymore connected to the last analyzed module (Closes #10106)
fix some bugs related to local disabling of messages
fix cr/lf pb when generating the rc file on windows platforms
What's New in Pylint 0.11.0?¶
Release date: 2006-04-19
fix crash caused by the exceptions checker in some case
fix some E1101 false positive with abstract method or classes defining __getattr__
dirty fix to avoid "_socketobject" has not "connect" member. The actual problem is that astng isn't able to understand the code used to create socket.socket object with exec
added an option in the similarity checker to ignore docstrings, enabled by default
included patch from Benjamin Niemann to allow block level enabling/disabling of messages
What's New in Pylint 0.10.0?¶
Release date: 2006-03-06
WARNING, this release include some configuration changes (see below), so you may have to check and update your own configuration file(s) if you use one
this release require the 0.15 version of astng or superior (it will save you a lot of pylint crashes...)
W0705 has been reclassified to E0701, and is now detecting more inheriting problem, and a false positive when empty except clause is following an Exception catch has been fixed (Closes #10422)
E0212 and E0214 (metaclass/class method should have mcs/cls as first argument have been reclassified to C0202 and C0203 since this not as well established as "self" for instance method (E0213)
W0224 has been reclassified into F0220 (failed to resolve interfaces implemented by a class)
a new typecheck checker, introducing the following checks:
E1101, access to nonexistent member (implements #10430), remove the need of E0201 and so some options has been moved from the classes checker to this one
E1102, calling a non callable object
E1111 and W1111 when an assignment is done on a function call but the inferred function returns None (implements #10431)
change in the base checker:
checks module level and instance attribute names (new const-rgx and attr-rgx configuration option) (implements #10209 and #10440)
list comprehension and generator expression variables have their own regular expression (the inlinevar-rgx option) (implements #9146)
the C0101 check with its min-name-length option has been removed (this can be specified in the regxp after all...)
W0103 and W0121 are now handled by the variables checker (W0103 is now W0603 and W0604 has been split into different messages)
W0131 and W0132 messages have been reclassified to C0111 and C0112 respectively
new W0104 message on statement without effect
regexp support for dummy-variables (dummy-variables-rgx option replace dummy-variables) (implements #10027)
better global statement handling, see W0602, W0603, W0604 messages (implements #10344 and #10236)
--debug-mode option, disabling all checkers without error message and filtering others to only display error
fixed some R0201 (method could be a function) false positive
What's New in Pylint 0.9.0?¶
Release date: 2006-01-10
a lot of updates to follow astng 0.14 API changes, so install logilab-astng 0.14 or greater before using this version of pylint
checker number 10 ! newstyle will search for problems regarding old style / new style classes usage problems (rely on astng 0.14 new style detection feature)
new 'load-plugins' options to load additional pylint plugins (usable from the command line or from a configuration file) (implements #10031)
check if a "pylintrc" file exists in the current working directory before using the one specified in the PYLINTRC environment variable or the default ~/.pylintrc or /etc/pylintrc
fixed W0706 (Identifier used to raise an exception is assigned...) false positive and reraising a caught exception instance
fixed E0611 (No name get in module blabla) false positive when accessing to a class'__dict__
fixed some E0203 ("access to member before its definition") false positive
fixed E0214 ("metaclass method first argument should be mcs) false positive with staticmethod used on a metaclass
fixed packaging which was missing the test/regrtest_data directory
W0212 (method could be a function) has been reclassified in the REFACTOR category as R0201, and is no more considerer when a method overrides an abstract method from an ancestor class
include module name in W0401 (wildcard import), as suggested by Amaury
when using the '--parseable', path are written relative to the current working directory if in a sub-directory of it (#9789)
'pylint --version' shows logilab-astng and logilab-common versions
fixed pylint.el to handle space in file names
misc lint style fixes
What's New in Pylint 0.8.1?¶
Release date: 2005-11-07
fix "deprecated module" false positive when the code imports a module whose name starts with a deprecated module's name (close #10061)
fix "module has no name __dict__" false positive (Closes #10039)
fix "access to undefined variable __path__" false positive (close #10065)
fix "explicit return in __init__" false positive when return is actually in an inner function (Closes #10075)
What's New in Pylint 0.8.0?¶
Release date: 2005-10-21
check names imported from a module exists in the module (E0611), patch contributed by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
print a warning (W0212) for methods that could be a function (implements #9100)
new --defining-attr-methods option on classes checker
new --acquired-members option on the classes checker, used when --zope=yes to avoid false positive on acquired attributes (listed using this new option) (Closes #8616)
generate one E0602 for each use of an undefined variable (previously, only one for the first use but not for the following) (implements #1000)
make profile option saveable
fix Windows .bat file, patch contributed by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
fix one more false positive for E0601 (access before definition) with for loop such as "for i in range(10): print i" (test func_noerror_defined_and_used_on_same_line)
fix false positive for E0201 (undefined member) when accessing to __name__ on a class object
fix astng checkers traversal order
fix bug in format checker when parsing a file from a platform using different new line characters (Closes #9239)
fix encoding detection regexp
fix --rcfile handling (support for --rcfile=file, Closes #9590)
What's New in Pylint 0.7.0?¶
Release date: 2005-05-27
WARNING: pylint is no longer a logilab subpackage. Users may have to manually remove the old logilab/pylint directory.
introduce a new --additional-builtins option to handle user defined builtins
--reports option has now -r as short alias, and -i for --include-ids
fix a bug in the variables checker which may causing some false positives when variables are defined and used within the same statement (test func_noerror_defined_and_used_on_same_line)
this time, real fix of the "disable-msg in the config file" problem, test added to unittest_lint
fix bug with --list-messages and python -OO
fix possible false positive for W0201
What's New in Pylint 0.6.4?¶
Release date: 2005-04-14
allow to parse files without extension when a path is given on the command line (test noext)
don't fail if we are unable to read an inline option (e.g. inside a module), just produce an information message (test func_i0010)
new message E0103 for break or continue outside loop (Closes #8883, test func_continue_not_in_loop)
fix bug in the variables checker, causing non detection of some actual name error (Closes #8884, test func_nameerror_on_string_substitution)
fix bug in the classes checker which was making pylint crash if "object" is assigned in a class inheriting from it (test func_noerror_object_as_class_attribute)
fix problem with the similar checker when related options are defined in a configuration file
new --generate-man option to generate pylint's man page (require the latest logilab.common (>= 0.9.3)
packaged (generated...) man page
What's New in Pylint 0.6.3?¶
Release date: 2005-02-24
fix scope problem which may cause false positive and true negative on E0602
fix problem with some options such as disable-msg causing error when they are coming from the configuration file
What's New in Pylint 0.6.2?¶
Release date: 2005-02-16
fix false positive on E0201 ("access to undefined member") with metaclasses
fix false positive on E0203 ("access to member before its definition") when attributes are defined in a parent class
fix false positive on W0706 ("identifier used to raise an exception assigned to...")
fix interpretation of "t" as value for the indent-string configuration variable
fix --rcfile so that --rcfile=pylintrc (only --rcfile pylintrc was working in earlier release)
new raw checker example in the examples/ directory
What's New in Pylint 0.6.1?¶
Release date: 2005-02-04
new --rcfile option to specify the configuration file without the PYLINTRC environment variable
added an example module for a custom pylint checker (see the example/ directory)
some fixes to handle fixes in common 0.9.1 (should however still working with common 0.9.0, even if upgrade is recommended)
What's New in Pylint 0.6.0?¶
Release date: 2005-01-20
refix pylint Emacs mode
no more traceback when just typing "pylint"
fix a bug which may cause crashes on resolving parent classes
fix problems with the format checker: don't chock on files containing multiple CR, avoid C0322, C0323, C0324 false positives with triple quoted string with quote inside
correctly detect access to member defined latter in __init__ method
now depends on common 0.8.1 to fix problem with interface resolution (Closes #8606)
new --list-msgs option describing available checkers and their messages
added windows specific documentation to the README file, contributed by Brian van den Broek
updated doc/features.txt (actually this file is now generated using the --list-msgs option), more entries into the FAQ
improved tests coverage
What's New in Pylint 0.5.0?¶
Release date: 2004-10-19
avoid importing analyzed modules !
new Refactor and Convention message categories. Some Warnings have been remaped into those new categories
added "similar", a tool to find copied and pasted lines of code, both using a specific command line tool and integrated as a pylint's checker
imports checker may report import dependencies as a dot graph
new checker regrouping most Refactor detection (with some new metrics)
more command line options storable in the configuration file
fix bug with total / undocumented number of methods
What's New in Pylint 0.4.2?¶
Release date: 2004-07-08
fix pylint Emacs mode
fix classes checkers to handler twisted interfaces
What's New in Pylint 0.4.1?¶
Release date: 2004-05-14
fix the setup.py script to allow bdist_winst (well, the generated installer has not been tested...) with the necessary logilab/__init__.py file
fix file naming convention as suggested by Andreas Amoroso
fix stupid crash bug with bad method names
What's New in Pylint 0.4.0?¶
Release date: 2004-05-10
fix file path with --parsable
--parsable option has been renamed to --parseable
added patch from Andreas Amoroso to output message to files instead of standard output
added Run to the list of correct variable names
fix variable names regexp and checking of local classes names
some basic handling of metaclasses
no-docstring-rgx apply now on classes too
new option to specify a different regexp for methods than for functions
do not display the evaluation report when no statements has been analysed
fixed crash with a class nested in a method
fixed format checker to deals with triple quoted string and lines with code and comment mixed
use logilab.common.ureports to layout reports
What's New in Pylint 0.3.3?¶
Release date: 2004-02-17
added a parsable text output, used when the --parsable option is provided
added an Emacs mode using this output, available in the distrib's elisp directory
fixed some typos in messages
change include-ids options to yn, and allow it to be in the configuration file
do not chock on corrupted stats files
fixed bug in the format checker which may stop pylint execution
provide scripts for unix and windows to wrap the minimal pylint tk gui
What's New in Pylint 0.3.2?¶
Release date: 2003-12-23
html-escape messages in the HTML reporter (bug reported by Juergen Hermann)
added "TODO" to the list of default note tags
added "rexec" to the list of default deprecated modules
fixed typos in some messages
What's New in Pylint 0.3.1?¶
Release date: 2003-12-05
bug fix in format and classes checkers
remove print statement from imports checkers
provide a simple tk gui, essentially useful for windows users
What's New in Pylint 0.3.0?¶
Release date: 2003-11-20
new exceptions checker, checking for string exception and empty except clauses.
imports checker checks for reimport of modules
classes checker checks for calls to ancestor's __init__ and abstract method not overridden. It doesn't complain anymore for unused import in __init__ files, and provides a new option ignore-interface-methods, useful when you're using zope Interface implementation in your project
base checker checks for disallowed builtins call (controlled by the bad-functions option) and for use of * and **
format checker checks for use of <> and "l" as long int marker
major internal API changes
use the rewrite of astng, based on compiler.ast
added unique id for messages, as suggested by Wolfgang Grafen
added unique id for reports
can take multiple modules or files as argument
new options command line options : --disable-msg, --enable-msg, --help-msg, --include-ids, --reports, --disable-report, --cache-size
--version shows the version of the python interpreter
removed some options which are now replaced by [en|dis]able-msg, or disable-report
read disable-msg and enable-msg options in source files (should be in comments on the top of the file, in the form "# pylint: disable-msg=W0402"
new message for modules importing themselves instead of the "cyclic import" message
fix bug with relative and cyclic imports
fix bug in imports checker (cycle was not always detected)
still fixes in format checker : don't check comment and docstring, check first line after an indent
allowed/prohibited names now apply to all identifiers, not only variables, so changed the configuration option from (good|bad)-variable-names to (good|bad)-names
added string, rexec and Bastion to the default list of deprecated modules
do not print redefinition warning for function/class/method defined in mutually exclusive branches
What's New in Pylint 0.2.1?¶
Release date: 2003-10-10
added some documentation, fixed some typos
set environment variable PYLINT_IMPORT to 1 during pylint execution.
check that variables "imported" using the global statement exist
indentation problems are now warning instead of errors
fix checkers.initialize to try to load all files with a known python extension (patch from wrobell)
fix a bunch of messages
fix sample configuration file
fix the bad-construction option
fix encoding checker
fix format checker
What's New in Pylint 0.2.0?¶
Release date: 2003-09-12
new source encoding / FIXME checker (pep 263)
new --zope option which trigger Zope import. Useful to check Zope products code.
new --comment option which enable the evaluation note comment (disabled by default).
a ton of bug fixes
easy functional test infrastructure
What's New in Pylint 0.1.2?¶
Release date: 2003-06-18
bug fix release
remove dependency to pyreverse
What's New in Pylint 0.1.1?¶
Release date: 2003-06-01
much more functionalities !
What's New in Pylint 0.1?¶
Release date: 2003-05-19
initial release