Python

Usage

The Python filter is designed to find and return only content from comments and/or strings. It takes a Python buffer and returns one or more buffers containing the content of the comments and/or strings.

When first in the chain, the Python filter will look for the encoding of the file in the header, and convert to Unicode accordingly. It will assume utf-8 if no encoding header is found, and the user has not overridden the fallback encoding.

Text is returned in chunks based on the context of the captured text. Each docstring, inline comment, or normal string is returned as their own chunk.

In general, regardless of Python version, strings should be parsed almost identically. PySpelling, unless configured otherwise, will decode string escapes and strip out format variables from f-strings. Decoding of escapes and stripping format variables is not dependent on what version of Python PySpelling is run on, but is based on the string prefixes that PySpelling encounters. There are two cases that may cause quirks related to Python version:

1. PySpelling doesn't support being run from Python 2, but it will still find strings and comments in Python 2 code as many Python 3 projects support Python 2 as well. If you run this on Python 2 code that is not using from __future__ import unicode_literals, it will still treat the default strings in Python 2 code as Unicode as it has no way of knowing that a file is specifically meant for Python 2 parsing only. In general, you should use unicode_literals if you are supporting both Python 2 and 3.

2. Use of \N{NAMED UNICODE} might produce different results if one Python version defines a specific Unicode name while another does not. I'm not sure how greatly the named Unicode database varies from Python version to Python version, but if this is experienced, and is problematic, you can always disable decode_escapes in the options for a more consistent behavior.

matrix:
- name: python
  pipeline:
  - pyspelling.filters.python:
      strings: false
      comments: false
  sources:
  - pyspelling/**/*.py

Filtering String types

When strings is enabled, you can specify which strings you want to allow via the string_types option. Valid string types are b for bytes, f for format, u for Unicode, and r for raw. f refers to f-strings, not strings in the form "my string {}".format(value)", and though f-strings are Unicode, they are treated as a separate string type from Unicode. Case is not important, and the default value is fu.

If specifying r, you must also specify either u, b, or f as raw strings are also either u, b, or f strings. Selecting ur will select both Unicode strings and Unicode raw strings. If you need to target just raw strings, you can use r* which will target all raw strings types: raw Unicode, raw format, and raw bytes. You can use * for other types as well. You can also just specify * by itself to target all string types.

Options

Categories

Python returns text with the following categories.