> Attached is a patch to address some problems found by PyChecker.
> Mostly unused imports/locals, etc.
Thanks!
> There were a few methods that were removed because they were duplicated
> (ConfigParser.py:has_option, gzip.py:writelines, locale.py:set_locale).
> I deleted the first occurrence, but I'm not sure that was always right.
It'll take us some time to review all the patches.
> I have changed many unused locals to _ (e.g., for _ in range(3):).
> This gets PyChecker to shut up about being unused. It also defaults
> to ignoring unused local variables if their name is 'empty' or 'unused'.
Argh! I don't like using '_' for this, because '_' is already a
special built-in in interactive mode. I don't even like the fact that
PyChecker warns about unused loop control variables at all -- I see
nothing wrong with code like
for i in range(10): print "X"
and I would rather not have to write it differently specifically to
shut up PyChecker. (In general, I find it annoying when a tool like
this requires one to change one's perfectly fine coding style because
of a blind spot in the tool. :-)
I'd be happy if there was an option "complain if a loop control
variable is not used" but it was off by default.
I
> There are many more unused warnings. Does anybody want me to change
> the variables to empty, unused, _, or something different?
No.
> Should the default unused names be expanded?
I tend to use "dummy" when I need a dummy variable. But even in tuple
unpacks, I prefer to give all variables meaningful names even if I
don't use all. To me, this:
firstname, lastname, address, phone = get_employee()
is more readable than this:
firstname, lastname, dummy, dummy = get_employee()
> Note: I could not run under Python 2.2a1 because dir([]) does not
> return the methods.
But you can treat it as an instance, and get the methods by looking at
[].__class__.__dict__. Read PEP 252 -- it explains how the
introspection interface will be rationalized.
> Here are some other warnings I didn't fix because I wasn't sure what
> should be done:
>
> audiodev.py:214: No global (BUFFERSIZE) found
> (this is old, should BUFFERSIZE be defined, a better exception
> raised, and/or deprecation warning?)
I still haven't figured that one out myself. :-(
> cgi.py:820: Overriden method (values) doesn't match signature in
> class (cgi.FormContentDict)
I'm afraid that one will have to remain -- it exists for b/w
compatibility (with 6 year old code :-).
> ihooks.py:491: Overriden method (reload) doesn't match signature in
> class (ihooks.BasicModuleImporter)
This is intentional.
> imaplib.py:1026: No global (j) found
Huh? There's no 'j' on that line.
> ntpath.py:411: No global (WindowsError) found
> (I ran on unix, not sure if this is ok on windows.)
Yes, this exception is unique to Windows.
> pdb.py:138: Overriden method (default) doesn't match signature in
> class (cmd.Cmd)
This one I don't understand. BTW, it would be nice if you could also
mention the file and line number of the other reference.
> profile.py:179: No global (operator) found
That looks like a bug in profile.py to me: it is clearly hoping
for "import operator". :-)
But in general: thanks for PyCecker, Neil, and thanks for the patch
set!
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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