The EP14 Pylint sprint team (more on this here and there) is proud to announce they just released Pylint 1.3 together with its companion Astroid 1.2. As usual, this includes several new features as well and bug fixes. You'll find below some structured list of the changes.
Packages are uploaded to pypi, debian/ubuntu packages should be soon provided by Logilab, until they get into the standard packaging system of your favorite distribution.
Please notice Pylint 1.3 will be the last release branch support python 2.5 and 2.6. Starting from 1.4, we will only support python greater or equal to 2.7. This will be the occasion to do some great cleanup in the code base. Notice this is only about the Pylint's runtime, you should still be able to run Pylint on your Python 2.5 code, through using Python 2.7 at least.
New checks
- Add multiple checks for PEP 3101 advanced string formatting: 'bad-format-string', 'missing-format-argument-key', 'unused-format-string-argument', 'format-combined-specification', 'missing-format-attribute' and 'invalid-format-index'
- New 'invalid-slice-index' and 'invalid-sequence-index' for invalid sequence and slice indices
- New 'assigning-non-slot' warning, which detects assignments to attributes not defined in slots
Improved checkers
- Fixed 'fixme' false positive (#149)
- Fixed 'unbalanced-iterable-unpacking' false positive when encountering starred nodes (#273)
- Fixed 'bad-format-character' false positive when encountering the 'a' format on Python 3
- Fixed 'unused-variable' false positive when the variable is assigned through an import (#196)
- Fixed 'unused-variable' false positive when assigning to a nonlocal (#275)
- Fixed 'pointless-string-statement' false positive for attribute docstrings (#193)
- Emit 'undefined-variable' when using the Python 3 metaclass= argument. Also fix 'unused-import' false for that construction (#143)
- Emit 'broad-except' and 'bare-except' even if the number of except handlers is different than 1. Fixes issue (#113)
- Emit 'attribute-defined-outside-init' for all statements in the same module as the offended class, not just for the last assignment (#262, as well as a long standing output mangling problem in some edge cases)
- Emit 'not-callable' when calling properties (#268)
- Don't let ImportError propagate from the imports checker, leading to crash in some namespace package related cases (#203)
- Don't emit 'no-name-in-module' for ignored modules (#223)
- Don't emit 'unnecessary-lambda' if the body of the lambda call contains call chaining (#243)
- Definition order is considered for classes, function arguments and annotations (#257)
- Only emit 'attribute-defined-outside-init' for definition within the same module as the offended class, avoiding to mangle the output in some cases
- Don't emit 'hidden-method' message when the attribute has been monkey-patched, you're on your own when you do that.
Others changes
- Checkers are now properly ordered to respect priority(#229)
- Use the proper mode for pickle when opening and writing the stats file (#148)
Astroid changes
- Function nodes can detect decorator call chain and see if they are decorated with builtin descriptors (classmethod and staticmethod).
- infer_call_result called on a subtype of the builtin type will now return a new Class rather than an Instance.
- Class.metaclass() now handles module-level __metaclass__ declaration on python 2, and no longer looks at the __metaclass__ class attribute on python 3.
- Add slots method to Class nodes, for retrieving the list of valid slots it defines.
- Expose function annotation to astroid: Arguments node exposes 'varargannotation', 'kwargannotation' and 'annotations' attributes, while Function node has the 'returns' attribute.
- Backported most of the logilab.common.modutils module there, as most things there are for pylint/astroid only and we want to be able to fix them without requiring a new logilab.common release
- Fix names grabed using wildcard import in "absolute import mode" (i.e. with absolute_import activated from the __future__ or with python 3) (pylint issue #58)
- Add support in brain for understanding enum classes.