[Python-projects] pylint with Python 2.6 on Vista

[Sylvain Thénault]

Le Wednesday 25 March 2009 13:22:22 Tom Malcolmson, vous avez écrit :
> On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:21 +0100, "Sylvain Thénault"
>
> <sylvain.thenault at logilab.fr> wrote:
> > Le Wednesday 25 March 2009 02:37:58 Tom Malcolmson, vous avez écrit :
> > > Hi.
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Please use python-projects at lists.logilab.org for questions regarding
> > pylint
> > (Cced)
> >
> > > I've just tried pylint 0.17.0 with Python 2.6.1 on Vista Business
> > > 32bit. I installed pylint, logilab-astng, logilab-common all
> > > successfully with the python setup.py install command.
> > >
> > > I get an exception when I run pylint (the output is below).  Does
> > > pylint work with Python 2.6?  I'm particularly interested in using it
> > > in relation to RPython.
> >
> > Unfortunatly latest release has broken Python2.6 suppor, it will be fixed
> > in
> > the next astng/pylint release (today). Also what do you mean by "using it
> > in
> > relation to RPython" ? If you mean using RPython restriction detection
> > which
> > was done by pylint, this is not your lucky day since the rpython checker
> > has
> > been removed from pylint 0.17 since it wasn't maintained and rpython is
> > somewhat a moving target. Of course if you've any interest in it it's
> > easy to
> > get it back from an earlier release.
>
> Thanks for the response.
>
> Yes, it is the 'RPython restriction detection' that I am interested in.
> I'm sorry to hear that it has been removed.

I though no one was using it. And I bet I was right until you came out ;)

> Perhaps the easiest thing would be for me to see if I can get my python
> software working on Python v2.5, and then I could use your pylint 0.17.

that's an option (though you'll need pylint 0.16 and asntg 0.17). Getting the 
rpython checker from 0.16 and porting it to 0.17 is another option, probably 
better in the long term (though it needs a bit of work).
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