Python Adventures

“Pylint is a lint-like tool for Python code. It performs almost all the verifications that pychecker does, and additionally can perform some stylistic verification and coding standard enforcements. The checked code is assigned a mark based on the number and the severity of the encountered problems. The previous mark of a given piece of code is cached so that you can see if the code quality has improved since the last check.”

Pylint is a very nice code checker. If you use Ubuntu, you can install it from the repositories (sudo apt-get install pylint). Its usage is very simple:

pylint  file.py

The output is a nice report with suggestions how to improve the code quality. I especially like the “unused import” warnings.

Check out this tiny tutorial for some examples.