Andrea Crotti wrote:
I'm not sure for how long I had this bug, and I could not understand the
problem.
I had a function which would return a boolean
def func_bool():
if x:
return True
else: return False
Now somewhere else I had
if func_bool:
# do something
I could not quite understand why it was always true, until I finally
noticed that the () were missing.
Is there some tool to avoid these stupid mistakes? (pylint doesn't warn
me on that)
I don't think I will ever (or almost) have to use a function as a
boolean, instead of its return value...
Heh, I do believe I've been bitten by that a couple times.
The only defense I'm aware of is good unit tests.
~Ethan~
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
