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  What's New In Pylint 1.2
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Release date: 2014-04-30

* Restore the ability to specify the init-hook option via the
  configuration file, which was accidentally broken in 1.2.0.

* Add a new warning [bad-continuation] for badly indented continued
  lines.

* Emit [assignment-from-none] when the function contains bare returns.
  Fixes BitBucket issue #191.

* Added a new warning for closing over variables that are
  defined in loops. Fixes Bitbucket issue #176.

* Do not warn about \u escapes in string literals when Unicode literals
  are used for Python 2.*. Fixes BitBucket issue #151.

* Extend the checking for unbalanced-tuple-unpacking and
  unpacking-non-sequence to instance attribute unpacking as well.

* Fix explicit checking of python script (1.2 regression, #219)

* Restore --init-hook, renamed accidentally into --init-hooks in 1.2.0

  Closes #211

* Add 'indexing-exception' warning, which detects that indexing
  an exception occurs in Python 2 (behaviour removed in Python 3).


What's New in Pylint 1.2.0?
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Release date: 2014-04-18

* Pass the current python paths to pylint process when invoked via
  epylint.  Fixes BitBucket issue #133.

* Add -i / --include-ids and -s / --symbols back as completely ignored
  options. Fixes BitBucket issue #180.

* Extend the number of cases in which logging calls are detected. Fixes
  bitbucket issue #182.

* Improve pragma handling to not detect pylint:* strings in non-comments.
  Fixes BitBucket issue #79.

* Do not crash with UnknownMessage if an unknown message ID/name appears
  in disable or enable in the configuration. Patch by Cole Robinson.
  Fixes bitbucket issue #170.

* Add new warning 'eval-used', checking that the builtin function ``eval``
  was used.

* Make it possible to show a naming hint for invalid name by setting
  include-naming-hint. Also make the naming hints configurable. Fixes
  BitBucket issue #138.

* Added support for enforcing multiple, but consistent name styles for
  different name types inside a single module; based on a patch written
  by morbo@google.com.

* Also warn about empty docstrings on overridden methods; contributed
  by sebastianu@google.com.

* Also inspect arguments to constructor calls, and emit relevant
  warnings; contributed by sebastianu@google.com.

* Added a new configuration option logging-modules to make the list
  of module names that can be checked for 'logging-not-lazy' et. al.
  configurable; contributed by morbo@google.com.

* ensure init-hooks is evaluated before other options, notably load-plugins

  Closes #166

* Python 2.5 support restored: fixed small issues preventing pylint to run
  on python 2.5. Bitbucket issues #50 and #62.

* bitbucket #128: pylint doesn't crash when looking
  for used-before-assignment in context manager
  assignments.

* Add new warning, 'bad-reversed-sequence', for checking that the
  reversed() builtin receive a sequence (implements ``__getitem__`` and ``__len__``,
  without being a dict or a dict subclass) or an instance which implements
  ``__reversed__``.

* Mark ``file`` as a bad function when using python2 (closes #8).

* Add new warning 'bad-exception-context', checking
  that ``raise ... from ...`` uses a proper exception context
  (None or an exception).

* Enhance the check for 'used-before-assignment' to look
  for 'nonlocal' uses.

* Emit 'undefined-all-variable' if a package's __all__
  variable contains a missing submodule (closes #126).

* Add a new warning 'abstract-class-instantiated' for checking
  that abstract classes created with ``abc`` module and
  with abstract methods are instantiated.

* Do not warn about 'return-arg-in-generator' in Python 3.3+.

* Do not warn about 'abstract-method' when the abstract method
  is implemented through assignment

  Closes #155

* Improve cyclic import detection in the case of packages, patch by Buck Golemon

* Add new warnings for checking proper class __slots__:
  ``invalid-slots-object`` and ``invalid-slots``.

* Search for rc file in `~/.config/pylintrc` if `~/.pylintrc`
  doesn't exists

  Closes #121

* Don't register the new style checker w/ python >= 3

* Fix unused-import false positive w/ augment assignment

  Closes #78

* Fix access-member-before-definition false negative wrt aug assign

  Closes #164

* Do not attempt to analyze non python file, e.g. .so file

  Closes #122