i adore compiler based programmers. yesterday i changed a bit of python code without being able to run it only to find out later i wasn't even able to spell True and False correctly.

Is there no unit test that should have caught that?

@alexbrooklyn "Not since the QA department was replaced by our clients, no"

Oh I'm a compiler based programmer!

What about using a linter?

@sbiewald not in np++ in a totally non dev environment

@ScriptCoded sorry not a native speaker. what would be the better term?

I also curse python often for that very reason.

One thing I use with some software is pre-compiling my code before depolyment. Catches a good portion of errors that would'be been only caught when your file would'be been imported for execution.

There is a preinstalled module called py_compile. It basically creates the .pyc files you get in __pycache__ or whatever that tmp directory is usually called. Just run the function compile on your files to test them.

I even have a script that compiles all files with that and replaces all .py files with .pyc files. Sourcecode is kinda obfuscated, comments gone and you can run everything the same.

thank you for the suggestions. i was unclear: i could not run the script to test it because lack of python on the computer. later at home the linter cried a bit.