PyChecker is an old Python checker, supporting up to Python 2.7.
Despite other more dominate checkers, there are many users, as it has some checks which do not appear elsewhere.
Quickly annotating its feature list with existing tools that do this:
No global found (e.g., using a module without importing it)
pyflakes
pylint
Passing the wrong number of parameters to functions/methods/constructors
?
Passing the wrong number of parameters to builtin functions & methods
?
Using format strings that don't match arguments
flake8-format-string
Using class methods and attributes that don't exist
pylint ?
Changing signature when overriding a method
pylint?
Redefining a function/class/method in the same scope
pyflakes
pylint?
Using a variable before setting it
pyflakes
pylint
self is not the first parameter defined for a method
No doc strings in modules, classes, functions, and methods
pydocstyle
It has an old pypi page, for 0.8.12, but it isnt easily installable.
$ pip2 install pychecker --upgrade
Collecting pychecker
Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pychecker (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for pychecker
$ sudo pip3 install pychecker
Collecting pychecker
Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pychecker (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for pychecker
Fedora packages 0.8.19.
$ dnf info pychecker
Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'zyga-snapcore', disabling.
Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'spot-chromium', disabling.
Last metadata expiration check: 1:02:06 ago on Wed Dec 14 11:33:18 2016.
Installed Packages
Name : pychecker
Arch : noarch
Epoch : 0
Version : 0.8.19
Release : 11.fc25
Size : 662 k
Repo : @System
From repo : fedora
Summary : A python source code checking tool
URL : http://pychecker.sourceforge.net
License : BSD
Description : PyChecker is a python source code checking tool to help you find
: common bugs. It is meant to find problems that are typically caught by
: a compiler.
Many of the basic features will be in pyflakes and pylint, so we already have those features available, but we need to check that the bear exposes the functionality properly.
Others will need native bears.
PyChecker is an old Python checker, supporting up to Python 2.7. Despite other more dominate checkers, there are many users, as it has some checks which do not appear elsewhere.
Quickly annotating its feature list with existing tools that do this:
It has an old pypi page, for 0.8.12, but it isnt easily installable.
Fedora packages 0.8.19.
So does Ubuntu since precise.
Many of the basic features will be in pyflakes and pylint, so we already have those features available, but we need to check that the bear exposes the functionality properly. Others will need native bears.