John Zenger wrote: > To my horror, someone pointed out to me yesterday that a web app I > wrote has been prominently displaying a misspelled word. The word was > buried in my code. > > Is there a utility out there that will help spell-check literal > strings entered into Python source code? I don't mean spell-check > strings entered by the user; I mean, go through the .py file, isolate > strings, and tell me when the strings contain misspelled words. In an > ideal world, my IDE would do this with a red wavy line. > > I guess a second-best thing would be an easy technique to open a .py > file and isolate all strings in it. > > (I know that the better practice is to isolate user-displayed strings > from the code, but in this case that just didn't happen.) >
Use the re module, identify the strings and write them to another file, then open the file with your spell checker. Program shouldn't be more than 10 lines. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
