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− | When possible use tools to check your code, this will save lots of time to everybody involved. We recommend pylint and pep8.py, would also welcome feedback about pyflakes. | + | When possible use tools to check your code, this will save lots of time to everybody involved. |
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| + | Please try to use [http://www.logilab.org/857 pylint] to verify your patch for things like exceeding 80 columns etc, unused imports and unused variables. Pylint is not a tool you can rely on 100% but it helps to follow some guidelines and to avoid the most stupid errors like typos. sugar-jhbuild contains a pylintrc you can use in the <code>scripts/data</code> directory: [http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-jhbuild/repos/mainline/blobs/master/scripts/data/pylintrc pylintrc] (follow "raw blob data"). |
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| + | [http://svn.browsershots.org/trunk/devtools/pep8/pep8.py pep8.py] catches more style errors than pylint, so make sure to run that one, too. |
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| + | In the sugar packages use 'make distcheck' to make sure all files are included and the POTFILES.in is up to date. |