Am 21.07.2016 um 00:54 schrieb Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>: > On Wed, 20 Jul 2016 12:38:58 +0200 > Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Add a reporter replacement that assigns the correct source name and line >> number to a system message, as recorded in a ViewList. > > This is clearly a worthwhile fix, and I've applied it. A couple of little > notes, though... > >> + self.state.memo.title_styles, self.state.memo.section_level = [], 0 > Hi Jon, thanks for your review / accept. > Kernel coding style doesn't really extend to Python, but I believe this > sort of multiple assignment goes against its spirit. its a tuple assignment ;) > In the future, can we > just do it as two lines? Yes, in this case its a bad style, because it really is a multiple assignment. Sometimes I use tuple assignments for readability. E.g in the first and last line, where I buffer (buf) the self.state.memo properties: + buf = self.state.memo.title_styles, self.state.memo.section_level, self.state.memo.reporter + self.state.memo.reporter = AutodocReporter(result, self.state.memo.reporter) + self.state.memo.title_styles, self.state.memo.section_level = [], 0 + try: + self.state.nested_parse(result, 0, node, match_titles=1) + finally: + self.state.memo.title_styles, self.state.memo.section_level, self.state.memo.reporter = buf > >> - except Exception as e: >> + except Exception as e: # pylint: disable=W0703 >> env.app.warn('kernel-doc \'%s\' processing failed with: %s' % >> (" ".join(cmd), str(e))) >> return [nodes.error(None, nodes.paragraph(text = "kernel-doc missing"))] > > This hunk would appear to be an unrelated change? This is from my pylint run and brings me to the point *linting* To cover style and quality aspects, I advise to use pylint ! https://www.pylint.org/ E.g. in Emacs use "M-x pylint" to lint current buffer. Pylint integrates error detection (quality) and Coding Standard (PEP8) check: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ I'am not familiar with all details of the kerne Coding Standards but I guess that PEP8 will cover most similar in the python domain. The main motivation of PEP 8 is readability. Taking this into account our python implementations has weakness, e.g. large try/except blocks and catching unclassified exception (see above). Catching unclassified will be criticized by pylint. Sometimes we need to catch unclassified. With the "# pylint: disable=W0703" I deactivate the pylint message W0703 http://pylint-messages.wikidot.com/messages:w0703 -- Markus -- > > Thanks, > > jon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html