Eclipse Pydev: Supress no-self errors in python wrappers generated with swig

Question

Hi,

when generating python wrappers with swig the python wrapper classes in the generated python file do not have an explicit self parameter, for example see below:

class PySwigIterator(_object):
    def value(*args): return _spatiotemporalnmf.PySwigIterator_value(*args)
    def incr(*args): return _spatiotemporalnmf.PySwigIterator_incr(*args)
    def decr(*args): return _spatiotemporalnmf.PySwigIterator_decr(*args)
    def distance(*args): return _spatiotemporalnmf.PySwigIterator_distance(*args)

I am developing with the eclipse pluging Pydev. Pydev always shows an error when it detects a method without explicit self parameter. I am aware of two methods to get rid of the errors: First, disable error checking for the whole project in the Pydev preferences. Second, add a #@NoSelf to every line with an error. I don't want to use the first one, because I still want to get error warnings for my non-swig-generated files. Obviously the second one is also not very good, because I would have to do it by hand and every time I generate the file again, all #@NoSelfs will be gone.

My Question now is, is there a better way to achieve this?

Thanks

Answer 1

As from the documentation, any file with the comment

#@PydevCodeAnalysisIgnore

inside will not be analyzed.

Therefore, you just need to add it to all SWIG-generated files, and you should be OK. It is just one place to change, and you could even write a very small processor that will add it automatically.