Sarah> Current output:
Sarah> ************* Module Kontroller
Sarah> W: 9: Bad indentation. Found 2 spaces, expected 4
Sarah> W: 10: Bad indentation. Found 2 spaces, expected 4
Sarah> W: 11: Bad indentation. Found 2 spaces, expected 4
Sarah> W: 12: Bad indentation. Found 2 spaces, expected 4
Sarah> W: 15: Bad indentation. Found 2 spaces, expected 4
Sarah> W: 19: Bad indentation. Found 2 spaces, expected 4
Sarah> W: 21: Bad indentation. Found 3 spaces, expected 8
Sarah> W: 22: Bad indentation. Found 4 spaces, expected 12
Sarah> Proposed output:
Sarah> ************* Module Kontroller
Sarah> W: 9: Bad indentation. Found 2 spaces, expected 4
Sarah> W: 10: Bad indentation. Found 2 spaces, expected 4
Sarah> W: 11: Bad indentation. Found 2 spaces, expected 4
Sarah> W: 12: Bad indentation. Found 2 spaces, expected 4
Sarah> [4 more Bad indentation messages, use --unabridged to display them
all]
Even shorter:
W: 9: Bad indentation. Found 2 spaces, expected 4
[Run 'reindent' to correct the dozens of other indentation problems]
:-)
Sarah> * Possible output improvement #3*
Sarah> Modify pylint's rating system not to give negative ratings out of
Sarah> ten. This doesn't match up to most people's expectations of how a
Sarah> rating works.
Sarah> Current output:
Sarah> Your code has been rated at -6479.99/10 (previous run: -6479.99/10)
...
(No smiley here...)
I would argue that the ratings be deleted altogether or at least turned off
by default (and require obscure keyboard gymnastics to reenable). On more
than one occasion I have encountered people who thought that since pylint
gave their code a 10-out-of-10 gold star that it was ready to release. In
my opinion, displaying numeric ratings simply gives beginning Python
programmers a false sense that their code is somehow "correct", largely
because they come from a C/C++/Java world and don't understand how much
Python's dynamic nature hinders attempts at static analysis. These people
are not necessarily beginning programmers, but have simply come to rely on
their C++ compiler far too much.
--
Skip Montanaro - [email protected] - http://www.smontanaro.net/
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