Flake8 VS autoflake

Flake8. This library is a wrapper around pycodestyle (PEP8), pyflakes, and Ned Batchelder’s McCabe script. It is a great toolkit for checking your code base against coding style (PEP8), programming errors (like SyntaxError, NameError, etc) and to check cyclomatic complexity.

Flake8 combines the functionalities of the PyFlakes, pycodestyle, and McCabe libraries. It provides a streamlined approach to code linting by detecting coding errors, enforcing style conventions, and measuring code complexity.

He made yesqa and pyupgrade (among others), and also works on flake8. His main job is for https://sentry.io/.

repos: - repo: https://github.com/psf/black rev: 21.7b0 hooks: - id: black language_version: python3.8 - repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8 rev: 3.9.2 hooks: - id: flake8

https://github.com/psf/black it’s a PEP8 compliant formatter for Python codebases. If you don’t like auto formatting files you can use https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8 it just lists out all of the style issues so you can fix them manually.

I have no stake in that, but my observation is that the actual discussion appears to have both supporters and detractors rather than overwhelming support. Either way, it has nothing to do with whether or not it is realistic to say that Ruff is the "one Python linter to rule them all".

https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8/issues/234

Ruff is not only much faster, but it is also very convenient to have an all-in-one solution that replaces multiple other widely used tools: Flake8 (linter), isort (imports sorting), Black (code formatter), autoflake, many Flake8 plugins and more. And it has drop-in parity with these tools, so it is really straightforward to migrate from them to Ruff.

Ruff can be used to replace Flake8 (plus dozens of plugins), isort, pydocstyle, yesqa, eradicate, pyupgrade, and autoflake, all while executing tens or hundreds of times faster than any individual tool.

Having unused imports in a Python file is a prevalent issue, with a very easy solution: autoflake. Running it over your files will remove any unused imports in place.

cleanimports: runs isort and removes unused imports with Autoflake. Be sure to set up profile=black in isort settings to avoid conflicts with Black.

We use isort[0] for this. It even has a "black" compatible profile that line spits along black's defaults. Additionally we use autoflake[1] to remove unused import statements in place.

[0](https://github.com/PyCQA/isort)

[1](https://github.com/PyCQA/autoflake)

yaml repos: - repo: https://github.com/myint/autoflake rev: v1.4 hooks: - id: autoflake args: - --in-place - --remove-all-unused-imports - --expand-star-imports - --remove-duplicate-keys - --remove-unused-variables - repo: https://github.com/asottile/pyupgrade rev: v2.29.0 hooks: - id: pyupgrade args: [--py36-plus] - repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/isort rev: 5.9.3 hooks: - id: isort - repo: https://github.com/psf/black rev: 21.10b0 hooks: - id: black args: [--safe, --quiet] - repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8 rev: 4.0.1 hooks: - id: flake8 - repo: local hooks: - id: pylint name: pylint entry: pylint language: system types: [python] args: [ "-rn", "-sn", ] - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/mirrors-mypy rev: v0.910-1 hooks: - id: mypy name: mypy entry: mypy language: python types: [python] args: [] require_serial: true - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/mirrors-prettier rev: v2.4.1 hooks: - id: prettier args: [--prose-wrap=always, --print-width=88]

autoflake 400+⭐️