Tool for measuring coding standard conformance

[jml]

Like pyflakes, except for our coding standards.

[exarkun]

Things that can probably be implemented without a serious level of difficulty:

• line length limits
• # -*- test-case-name: ... -*- - okay, it isn't in the coding standard that modules need to start with this, but it should be.
• Ditto for copyright statement
• Whitespace around operators
• four space indents
• no tabs or trailing whitespace
• no simple suites
• no relative imports (is this actually possible?)
• " or """ for docstrings
• valid, parsable epytext
• No __variables
• No \-style line continuations

Harder things which might result in false positives:

• docstrings on every module/function/class/method
• StudlyCaps, camelCase, and auto_DISPATCH naming

What else?

[jml]

• It would be easy to check vertical whitespace.
• Possibly some more sophisticated indentation checking (you know, for statements that span multiple lines)

[therve]

This is the kind of things pylint can do, with a little bit of configuration (OK, maybe a lot of configuration).

[thijs]

This has been implemented as tool called twistedchecker right..?

[exarkun]

Yes, thanks for noticing. Although twistedchecker definitely needs more work, it now exists as a real project on Launchpad -  http://launchpad.net/twistedchecker - and bug reports and feature requests should be handled there.