Is there a need for a “use strict” Python compiler?

Question

There exist static analysis tools for Python, but compile time checks tend to be diametrically opposed to the run-time binding philosophy that Python embraces. It\'s possibl

Answer 1

I've found that I only really care about detecting references to undeclared vars. Eclipse has pylint integration via PyDev and, although pylint is far from perfect, it does a reasonable job at that.

It does kind of go against Python's dynamic nature, and I do have to add #IGNOREs occasionally, when my code gets clever about something. But I find that happens infrequently enough that I'm happy with it.

But I could see the utility of some pylint-like functionality becoming available in the form of a command-line flag. Kind of like Python 2.6's -3 switch, which identifies points of incompatibility between Python 2.x and 3.x code.