[Python-projects] pylint: problem with custom checkers

[Duncan Findlay]

On Feb 6, 2009, at 8:17 AM, Saegebrecht Martin wrote:

> Hello!
> I am using pylint and I have just written my own custom checker.
>
> Now, What am I going to do to run my checker and include it in the  
> report?
>
> Is it enough to put it in the directory "checker" where pylint is  
> installed. I did that and when I run pylint on a pythonfile which  
> should respond to my checker I still dont see anything in the output.
>
> Have I forgotten something???
>

Do you have a function like this in your module?

def register(linter):
     """required method to auto register this checker """
     linter.register_checker(YourChecker(linter))

You need this to auto-register additional checkers (and put the file  
in the checkers/ directory).

Duncan