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PyFlakes a Lint-like tool for Python, like PyChecker. It is focused on
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identifying common errors quickly without executing Python code.
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Its primary advantage over PyChecker is that it is fast. You don't have
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to sit around for minutes waiting for the checker to run; it runs on most
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large projects in only a few seconds.
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The two primary categories of defects reported by PyFlakes are:
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* Names which are used but not defined or used before they are defined
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* Names which are redefined without having been used
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These can each take many forms. For example, PyFlakes will tell you when
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you have forgotten an import, mistyped a variable name, defined two
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functions with the same name, shadowed a variable from another scope,
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imported a module twice, or two different modules with the same name, and
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so on.
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