epylint

[Glyph Lefkowitz]

I'd like a tool that I can run which will quickly validate as much epytext as possible. In the vein of pyflakes or pep8.py, it doesn't have to catch everything, as long as it can catch a few common things quickly. Thanks to those tools providing real-time feedback in the background of my editor, I pretty much never type NameErrors any more, and I rarely get spacing wrong, but I still make pydoctor syntax errors all the time.

Pretty much everybody's editor has a persistent python interpreter nowadays, so this *could* be a sidecar process that hangs out for a while and keeps some state around, if necessary, as long as it *looks* like it's just a command-line tool on the front end.