[Buildbot-devel] Running Pylint on Buildbot's source code

[Vladimir Rutsky]

On 06.07.2013 18:47, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin at v.igoro.us> wrote:
>> I'm actually fine with this kind of one-line loop, especially in
>> tests.  Also, i suspect W0106 will trigger on a bare
>> `json.dumps(foo)`, which we often use in tests to verify that
>> something is JSON-able.
Why not use usual one line loop instead list comprehension?

for c in '5:hello,5:world,': p.feed(c)


instead of

[p.feed(c) for c in '5:hello,5:world,']


> In fact, most of our pylint violations are probably in the tests,
> where we do funny things in order to simulate desired circumstances
> for the tests.  Is there a way to apply a more stringent set of
> requirements to the production code than to the test code?
>
> Dustin

As I see W0106 (expression-not-assigned) emerges only for those four 
example that I mentioned before. It doesn't emerge for "json.dumps(foo)" 
or in other Buildbot code.

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Vladimir Rutsky