[Python-projects] A first impression of pylint

[Marius Gedminas]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 09:25:26AM +0200, Alexandre.Fayolle at external.electrabel.com wrote:
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> > projects-bounces at lists.logilab.org] On Behalf Of Marius Gedminas
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> > Subject: [Python-projects] A first impression of pylint
> 
> Thanks for your feedback.
> 
> > Actually, as I keep checking whether that pylint run is finally done,
> I
> > realize that speed may have been the decisive factor for my choice.
> > Our full suite of unit and functional tests takes 20 minutes, which is
> > an eternity to me; pylint (yay it's finished at last!) took 17
> minutes.
> 
> Two quick notes, before others give you a more complete answer : 
> 
> * using 'pylint -e' will only report Errors and therefore considerably
> speed up things

I neglected to mention that I was using pylint -e.

> * disabling the similarities checker can significantly improve speed,
> especially when running on a large code base. I'm responsible for this
> part of the code, and the complexity (from the top of my head) is
> O(n**2) (n being the number of lines in the code base). We should
> probably disable it automatically (unless the user explicitely asks for
> it) when the number of lines exceeds some threshold. 

Sounds like a good idea.

Marius Gedminas
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