pyflakes compiles your code, pychecker imports it, which is not idempotent -- all top-level statements are executed. pyflakes will throw some false positives, b

pyflakes compiles your code, pychecker imports it, which is not idempotent -- all top-level statements are executed. pyflakes will throw some false positives, but not many. pychecker will fill your terminal with opinions. pyflakes is IMHO a much superior tool. Plugging it into emacs via flymake is a no-brainer; I believe there are solutions for vi as well: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/?action=browse;oldid=PythonMode;id=PythonProgrammingInEmacs#toc9 http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/?action=browse;oldid=PythonMo...