RE: variable declaration

From: Robert Brewer (fumanchu_at_amor.org)
Date: 01/31/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:33:22 -0800
To: "AlexanderZatvornitskiy" <Alexander_Zatvornitskiy@p131.f3.n5025.z2.fidonet.org>,  <python-list@python.org>

AlexanderZatvornitskiy wrote:
> I'am novice in python, and I find one very bad thing (from my
> point of view) in
> language. There is no keyword or syntax to declare variable,
> like 'var' in
> Pascal, or special syntax in C. It can cause very ugly
> errors,like this:
>
> epsilon=0
> S=0
> while epsilon<10:
> S=S+epsilon
> epselon=epsilon+1
> print S
>
> It will print zero, and it is not easy to find such a bug!
>
> Even Visual Basic have 'Option Explicit' keyword! May be,
> python also have such
> a feature, I just don't know about it?

The feature is called "pychecker", and, although it isn't included in
the standard distribution, it's readily available:
http://pychecker.sourceforge.net/

Robert Brewer
MIS
Amor Ministries
fumanchu@amor.org

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