[TxMt] Why is PyCheckMate doing a syntax check only?

Daryl Spitzer daryl.spitzer at gmail.com
Thu Oct 18 20:38:25 UTC 2007


Thanks for the quick reply Alex.

> ...which leads me to believe that something changed on your end.

Yep, you're right.  I forgot that I installed Python 2.5.

I was going to re-install PyChecker, but decided to try Pylint
instead.  It's working.

--
Daryl


On 10/18/07, Alex Ross <alex.j.ross at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've come to depend on PyCheckMate (which I run via "Validate Syntax"
> > in the Python bundle).  But "all of a sudden" it has started doing a
> > "Syntax check only" (I don't know exactly when this started), which is
> > much less useful.  (The syntax check misses a number of errors that
> > the previous check would catch.)
> >
> > The window that opens when I do a validate shows "PyCheckMate r7337".
> > Did it fall back to syntax check only when I last updated TextMate?
> > How do I go back to the full validation?
>
> Did anything change in your python environment?
> Looking at the source of pycheckmate, it looks like
> it should automatically use PyFlakes, Pylint, or
> PyChecker if they are installed. Alternately, you can
> set the TM_PYCHECKER name of the executable
> you want to use to check the syntax.
>
> The last change to PyCheckMate was back in May
> 2007, which leads me to believe that something
> changed on your end.
>
> – Alex
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