Ben Finney
2/20/2008 9:09:00 AM
Thomas Dybdahl Ahle <lobais@gmail.com> 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