Question

What tools or techniques can help avoid bugs, especially silly mistakes such as typos, coding in Python and Django?

I know unit-testing every line of code is the “proper” way, but are there any shortcuts?

I know of pylint, but unfortunately it doesn’t check Django ORM named parameters, where a typo can go unnoticed. Is there any tool that can handle this kind of bugs?

A colleague thought of an idea to gather smart statistics on tokens (for example about named parameters to functions…), and when a once-in-a-code-base token is encountered it is warned as possible typo.
Do you know of any tool that does something similar?

Answer 1

Sorry I don’t know if I understand you correctly,

But I think a good IDE has automatic code validation and some of them also work with Django. For example, there is a good python plugin for Eclipse called PYDEV. There is also a good IDE based on Eclipse/Pydev called Aptana Studio that you can try (it also has good support for editing HTML/JS/CSS).

This Question is also a very good comparison of all the Python IDE’s.