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PYCHECKER
Section: User Commands (1)Updated: 12 June 2001
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NAME
pychecker - program to check python scripts for common mistakesSYNOPSIS
pychecker [options] files...DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the pychecker command. It was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.pychecker is a program that finds common bugs in python source code. It finds problems that are typically caught by a compiler for less dynamic languages, like C and C++. Because of the dynamic nature of python, some warnings may be incorrect; however, spurious warnings should be fairly infrequent.
PyChecker works in a combination of ways. First, it imports each module. If there is an import error, the module cannot be processed. The import provides some basic information about the module. The code for each function, class, and method is checked for possible problems.
OPTIONS
This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.- -h, --help
- Show summary of options.
- -s, --doc
- turn off all warnings for no doc strings
- -m, --moduledoc
- no module doc strings [on]
- -c, --classdoc
- no class doc strings [on]
- -f, --funcdoc
- no function/method doc strings [off]
- -i, --import unused imports [on]
- -l, --local
- unused local variables, except tuples [on]
- -t, --tuple
- all unused local variables, including tuples [off]
- -v, --var
- all unused module variables [off]
- -p, --privatevar
- unused private module variables [on]
- -g, --allglobals
- report each occurrence of global warnings [off]
- -n, --namedargs
- functions called with named arguments (like keywords) [on]
- -a, --initattr
- Attributes (members) must be defined in __init__() [off]
- -I, --initsubclass
- Subclass.__init__() not defined [off]
- -A, --callattr
- Calling data members as functions [off]
- -b, --blacklist ignore warnings from the list of modules [['Tkinter', 'wxPython', 'gtk', 'GTK', 'GDK']]
- -V, --varlist
- ignore variables not used from the list [['Tkinter', 'wxPython', 'gtk', 'GTK', 'GDK']]
- -L, --maxlines
- maximum lines in a function [200]
- -B, --maxbranches
- maximum branches in a function [50]
- -R, --maxreturns
- maximum returns in a function [10]
- -P, --printparse print internal checker parse structures [off]
- -d, --debug
-
turn on debugging for checker [off]
SEE ALSO
python(1)AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Arto Jantunen <viiru@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
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