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Scrutinizer vs Pylint: What are the differences?
Scrutinizer: Continuous inspection platform - improve code quality and find bugs before they hit production. Scrutinizer is a continuous inspection platform helping you to create better software; Pylint: Source-code, bug and quality checker for the Python programming language. 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.
Scrutinizer and Pylint can be categorized as "Code Review" tools.
Some of the features offered by Scrutinizer are:
- Continuously measure and track your code quality
- Project quality broken down
- Know your problem areas
On the other hand, Pylint provides the following key features:
- Syntax Check
- Style Check
- Warnings
Pylint is an open source tool with 2.28K GitHub stars and 493 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Pylint's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Scrutinizer has a broader approval, being mentioned in 23 company stacks & 41 developers stacks; compared to Pylint, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.
Pros of Pylint
- Command Line3
- Spell Check strings & comments2
- Code score & directions2
- Pre-commit checks2
- FOSS2
- Standards2
- IDE Integration2
- Check both committed & Uncommitted code1
- Hints to improve code1
Pros of Scrutinizer
- Github integration / sync7
- Bitbucket integration / sync4
- Gitlab integration / sync2
- Private Git repo sync2
- Python inspection1
- Easy setup1
- Code review features1
- Coverage Report changes1
- Free for open source1
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Cons of Pylint
Cons of Scrutinizer
- Pricing1
