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> Thank you! What tool do you use for coverage?

coverage. :-)

> And have you used pychecker?

Yes, in fact, I used to use a wrapper script I wrote that ran both
pylint and pychecker, then massaged the output into
suitable-for-emacs-next-error-command

> I heard it is as good as pylint. What do you think?

They overlap a fair bit, but do somewhat different things.

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