Question

I occasionally spend a considerable amount of time tracking down brainfarts in my code… while I normally run pylint against it, there are some things that slip past pylint. The easiest problem for me to overlook is this…

# normally, variable is populated from parsed text, so it's not predictable
variable = 'fOoBaR'
if variable.lower == 'foobar':
    #       ^^^^^<------------------ should be .lower()
    do_something()

Neither pylint nor Python bark about this… is there a python code-checking tool that can flag this particular issue?

Answer 1

This is pylint ticket #65910