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= Tools =
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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.
 
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").
 
[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.
 
In the sugar packages use 'make distcheck' to make sure all files are included and the POTFILES.in is up to date.