[packagekit] pylint madness

[Richard Hughes]

On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 08:47 +0200, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> Maybe we should have an discussion about the use of pylint:

Sure, I'm no python legend, by I am a slave to self check tools.

> A change like this, to silence pylint is bad IMHO. it is better to
> disable the pylint check for unused vars.
> then to make this weird stuff, it really make the code harder to read
> IMHO.

Sure, valid.

> pylint is good to find error in then code, but a lot of the coding
> standard stuff need to be turned off.

Right, I've found quite a few genuine errors in the code tanks to
pylint, but I agree, maybe I went to far. I'll revert some of the _
ones.

Richard.