Pylint

check your Python code before running it

 

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Features

Coding Standard

  • checking line-code's length,
  • checking if variable names are well-formed according to your coding standard
  • checking if imported modules are used

Python's PEP8 style guide

Error detection

  • checking if declared interfaces are truly implemented
  • checking if modules are imported
  • and much more (see the complete check list)

Full list of codes (wiki)

Refactoring help

Pylint detects duplicated code

About Refactoring (on wikipedia)

Fully customizable

Modify your pylintrc to customize which errors or conventions are important to you. The big advantage with Pylint is that it is highly configurable, customizable, and you can easily write a small plugin to add a personal feature.

More about message control (FAQ)

Editor integration

Run it in emacs , vim (pylint.vim, syntastic), eclipse, etc.


List of supported editors

IDE integration

Pylint is integrated in various IDEs :

List of supported IDEs

UML diagrams

Pylint is shipped with Pyreverse which creates UML diagrams for python code.

Pyreverse : UML Diagrams for Python

Continuous integration

Pylint can be automated in your project using Apycot, Hudson or Jenkins.

Extensibility

The underlying ASTNG library doesn't understand your code ? Contribute a patch to pylint-brain

Install

Debian

sudo apt-get install pylint


Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install pylint


Fedora

sudo yum install pylint


Gentoo

emerge pylint


FreeBSD

portmaster devel/pylint


Arch Linux

pacman -S pylint


OS X

pip install pylint


Windows

pip install pylint # see note


From source using Mercurial

hg clone https://bitbucket.org/logilab/pylint/
hg clone https://bitbucket.org/logilab/astng
hg clone http://hg.logilab.org/logilab/common


Support

Community

Commercial Services

Contact Logilab for commercial services about Pylint

http://www.logilab.fr/contact

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