Julien Danjou 2/16/2015

Hacking Python AST: checking methods declaration

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This technical article explains how to create a static analysis rule for flake8 to detect Python methods that should be declared as @staticmethod because they don't use the 'self' parameter. It covers the strategy of using Python's Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) for robust analysis and details the plugin registration process.

Hacking Python AST: checking methods declaration

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