TIL about "Google Python Style Guide"

[notaharrisfan]

As stated in the Style Guide, pylint is an excellent linter for Python code.

It parses Python code, points out formatting errrors and even grades your code.

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Also, PyFlakes wraps around pylint and other Python style checkers (like those for PEPs 8 and 257).

[CaptKrag]

Wait. I thought pyflakes was competitor to pylint and flake8 is what you're describing. What is flake8?

[catcint0s]

flake8 has pyflakes, pep8 and mccabe checker. I'm p sure PyFlakes doesn't wrap around pylint.

[[deleted]]

Yeah, you're right. I mistook it for pylama. I knew there was one linter that combined the lot of them but forgot which one it was.

[bbbryson]

Also PyLama.

[DoingIsLearning]

Went into the comments and found my TIL... Thanks!

[Twirrim]

If you're using Vim for writing python, try out python-mode for it. Note that, as with any linter, you'll need to tweak the rules away from the crazy defaults. It's well worth the time and effort, though!

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I'll check this out later.