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On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 4:35 PM,  <arie.lakeman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I thought it would be worth contributing some awareness of Yin Wang's PyS=
onar2 Python static analyzer being open sourced, it's here https://github.c=
om/yinwang0/pysonar2.  I recently converted it from being implemented in Ja=
va to being implemented in Python - here https://github.com/ariejdl/pysonar=
sq.  All the critical tests pass, it may interest pythonistas to be able to=
 hack on something like this actually in Python.

This is interesting.

Where does PySonar2 sit in the spectrum from pylint
(thorough/pedantic) to pyflakes (relaxed/few-false-positives)?

I use pylint and pyflakes a lot, and I've heard that PyChecker sits in
between them on this axis.