[Python-projects] possible pylint improvement? "Method could be a function"

[Aurélien Campéas]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:35:17AM -0500, Connor, Adam J wrote:
> Hi, 
> For R0201, "Method could be a function", Pylint gives me false positives
> on implementations like
> 
>     def __lt__(self, other):
>         return NotImplemented

didn't you  mean

         raise NotImplementedError 

?

> 
> even though this would seem a correct implementation when the operation
> is not supported.
> 
> There are lots of possible ways to address it. Currently, I have to turn
> the warnings off, but that is not ideal. I'd rather just turn them off
> for methods starting with double underscores.
> 
> Thanks for the product, though; it is very handy.
> 
> sincerely,
> adam connor
> 
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