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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.

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Pros of Pylint
Pros of Scrutinizer
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    Command Line
  • 2
    Spell Check strings & comments
  • 2
    Code score & directions
  • 2
    Pre-commit checks
  • 2
    FOSS
  • 2
    Standards
  • 2
    IDE Integration
  • 1
    Check both committed & Uncommitted code
  • 1
    Hints to improve code
  • 7
    Github integration / sync
  • 4
    Bitbucket integration / sync
  • 2
    Gitlab integration / sync
  • 2
    Private Git repo sync
  • 1
    Python inspection
  • 1
    Easy setup
  • 1
    Code review features
  • 1
    Coverage Report changes
  • 1
    Free for open source

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Cons of Pylint
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      Pricing

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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.

    What is Scrutinizer?

    Scrutinizer is a continuous inspection platform helping you to create better software.

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    What are some alternatives to Pylint and Scrutinizer?
    ESLint
    A pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript. Maintain your code quality with ease.
    Prettier
    Prettier is an opinionated code formatter. It enforces a consistent style by parsing your code and re-printing it with its own rules that take the maximum line length into account, wrapping code when necessary.
    TSLint
    An extensible static analysis tool that checks TypeScript code for readability, maintainability, and functionality errors. It is widely supported across modern editors & build systems and can be customized with your own lint rules, configurations, and formatters.
    SonarQube
    SonarQube provides an overview of the overall health of your source code and even more importantly, it highlights issues found on new code. With a Quality Gate set on your project, you will simply fix the Leak and start mechanically improving.
    Stylelint
    A mighty, modern CSS linter that helps you enforce consistent conventions and avoid errors in your stylesheets.
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