Pylint
Pylint is a static code analyzer for Python. It checks for errors, enforces a coding standard, looks for code smells, and can make suggestions about how the code could be refactored.
Install
Install perflint alongside Pylint to identify performance issues.
pip install pylint perflint
Configure
Generate an example Pylint configuration file.
pylint --generate-rcfile > .pylintrc
Develop
Ignore specific warnings for a line of code.
some_code_that_triggers_warning = 42 # pylint: disable=duplicate-code
Ignore specific warnings for a block of code.
# pylint: disable=duplicate-code,unused-variable
def some_function(variable: str):
print("This code might be similar to code elsewhere")
# pylint: enable=duplicate-code,unused-variable
Run
pylint ${SRC_DIR} --load-plugins perflint
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