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

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Date 2014-11-17 12:36 +1100
Subject Re: Messages from code analysis tools (was: Using map())
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> 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. PyLint is warning you “because the code
> uses this feature, I can't say anything about undefined names”.

Then that ought surely to be an informational? It's not saying there's
a problem in your code, it's pointing out that it can't check.

Either that, or warnings from PyLint are all low-grade and should be ignored.

ChrisA

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Using map() Pavel Volkov <sailor@lists.xtsubasa.org> - 2014-11-16 16:01 +0300
  Re: Using map() Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-11-17 11:09 +1100
    Re: Using map() Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-11-16 19:24 -0500
    Re: Using map() Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-17 12:08 +1100
    Messages from code analysis tools (was: Using map()) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-11-17 12:21 +1100
    Re: Using map() Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2014-11-16 17:31 -0800
    Re: Messages from code analysis tools (was: Using map()) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-17 12:36 +1100
    Re: Messages from code analysis tools Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-11-16 20:49 -0500

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