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Pylint

Source-code, bug and quality checker for the Python programming language
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What is Pylint?

It is a Python static code analysis tool which looks for programming errors, helps enforcing a coding standard, sniffs for code smells and offers simple refactoring suggestions.
Pylint is a tool in the Code Review category of a tech stack.
Pylint is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Pylint's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Pylint?

Companies
32 companies reportedly use Pylint in their tech stacks, including drafthub, arivu.one, and GatewayAPI.

Developers
142 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Pylint.

Pylint Integrations

Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, PyCharm, Vim, and Debian are some of the popular tools that integrate with Pylint. Here's a list of all 19 tools that integrate with Pylint.
Pros of Pylint
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Command Line
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Spell Check strings & comments
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Code score & directions
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Pre-commit checks
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FOSS
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Standards
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IDE Integration
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Check both committed & Uncommitted code
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Hints to improve code

Pylint's Features

  • Syntax Check
  • Style Check
  • Warnings

Pylint Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Pylint?
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
Visual Studio Code
Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
Docker
The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere
npm
npm is the command-line interface to the npm ecosystem. It is battle-tested, surprisingly flexible, and used by hundreds of thousands of JavaScript developers every day.
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Pylint's Followers
97 developers follow Pylint to keep up with related blogs and decisions.