Draft a plan for having control flow understanding in astroid

[pylint-bot]

Originally reported by: Claudiu Popa (BitBucket: PCManticore, GitHub: @PCManticore)

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/logilab/astroid/issue/213

[rgeronimi]

Having at least a basic & limited understanding of if..else... statement for variable (non-) assignment would help pylint a lot to catch unassigned variables

[dpinol]

hi, any news about this? this would enable skipping code based on global flags

[hippo91]

@dpinol sadly nobody had time to work on this.

[elfring]

I became curious how the support will evolve further also for this software area.

:thought_balloon: Other information sources are providing additional ideas.

• Article “The Python Control Flow Graph” by Rahul Gopinath
• Article “Analyzing control flow in Python”