Thomas Dybdahl Ahle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I tend to make a lot of mistakes of misspelled variable names.

You would greatly benefit from using tools like 'pyflakes', 'pylint',
and a unit test suite for your code. They're very good for finding
such simple bugs in your code.

> Is it possible to make python warn me about those at "compile time"?

The names are resolved at run time, so the compiler has insufficient
information to say whether a name is used incorrectly.

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Ben Finney
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