[Python-projects] Flag missing else: clauses?

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Fri Mar 14 23:56:20 CET 2008


    Amaury> Well, there are many places where an else: clause is not needed
    Amaury> at all.
    Amaury>    if isinstance(message, unicode):
    Amaury>         message = message.encode('utf-8')
    Amaury> Do you want a pylint warning in every case?

No, I'd like to be able to turn it on when I want though.  And of course, it
should be suppressable in the usual ways.

    Amaury> BTW, os.fork() and other posix functions never return negative
    Amaury> values in Python. They raise exceptions...

Hmm...  I pasted that code right out of the daemonize code, which, if I
understood the speaker correctly, is actually busy daemonizing Python
daemons today.  I'll pass that along to the author though.

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