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Pylint

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Full, detailed reports

Pylint gives very detailed reports of your code. It even provides ASCII tables with detailed statistics about the results. Data for the previous and current code execution is also available with the difference, allowing you to easily see the progress that you have made. See More

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May need to compile from source to install it correctly

There are some dependencies from Logilab that Pylint needs. They can easily be found in the README but trying to install them with easy_install can yield some problems with unresolved dependencies. See More

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Works with Vim

Through the plugin ALE. See More

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Easily enable or disable a particular message

Each check in pylint has a unique id, so you can choose to disable or enable that particular message in subsequent executions. Just run -enable-msg or -disable-msg and the message id. See More

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Fine-grained control

In addition to the ability to enable or disable warnings, Pylint also gives the developer a great degree of control through command line options. These range from regular expressions to enforce naming conventions to various settings to watch for complexity issues. See More

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Configurable

Pylint has a configuration file which can be tweaked to choose what kind of warning messages you want. This way you can choose to opt out of receiving warnings that you may consider useless. See More

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Great documentation

The documentation is thorough and complete. They provide information for any kind of warning that Pylint may raise and how to deal with them, enable/disable them and how to interpret them. See More

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Initial Release:May 19, 2003

Latest Release Date:June 18, 2022

Python Versions Supported:3.7.2+

Analysis Type:Static

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mypy

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Powerful type checker

Mypy's type checker checks the types of function parameters, supports type inference, typed collections and has even some support for generics. See More

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Still an experimental project

Mypy is still an unfinished experimental project. It is prone to bugs and to features being changed and removed. Plus, a large part of Python features is yet to be implemented. See More

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Works in a truly static way

Mypy works in a truly static way. The checker makes all the checks before the code is actually run, but it still catches a lot of bugs. See More

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Initial Release:October 28, 2012

Python Versions Supported:3.6+

Latest Release Date:June 6, 2022

Analysis Type:Hybrid

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flake8

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Integration with build tools like tox

Project-level settings for flake8 are in the tox settings file. It is trivial to run flake8 inside setup.py or pavement.py. See More

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Allows usage of and writing of plugins

Flake8 has the ability to run thrid-party plugins, including plugins you can write yourself. Here you can find a few useful plugins. See More

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Easy to ignore files and lines

Add "noqa" comments to files and lines to skip processing. Code comments make it easy to find and review exceptions with grep. See More

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Wraps multiple analysis tools

Flake8 is a wrapper around PyFlakes, pep8, and McCabe Complexity analysis. See More

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Initial Release:February 15, 2010

Python Versions Supported:3.6.1+

Latest Release Date:October 11, 2021

Analysis Type:Static

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