Should the editor catch this?

Hello Marcel,

No, this isn't really a bug. PyCharm's analysis is performed locally for

each method, and while for a regular variable it can detect cases of use

before assignment, for a method it may be possible that the instance variable

is assigned from some other place (another method or code outside of a class),

and there is no 100% reliable way to check that it's not. Because of that,

we don't highlight errors in this case.

First, allow me to begin with saying, I'm a fairly novice Python user.

I've been learning over the last year and loving it, but I have no

programming background whatsoever.  I realize there are (and have

been) instances where a CS background really would have helped.  I'm

hoping this isn't one of those 'obvious' cases.

I was creating a class when I started to write something resembling

the following snippet:

Image:unresolved_reference.jpg

I realized that I was referencing self.morestuff before I had

instantiated it.  To run this results in an AttributeError: test

instance has no attribute 'morestuff'.

My question is should the PyCharm editor have caught this?  Normally

if I refer to a variable before instantiating it, the editor complains

but in this case the .  Am I correct in assuming this is a bug?  If

so, I'll submit it to YouTrack.

--

Dmitry Jemerov

Development Lead

JetBrains, Inc.

http://www.jetbrains.com/

"Develop with Pleasure!"

Thank you!  I'm glad I asked before submitting a trac ticket.