Flake8
flake8 is a python tool that glues together pycodestyle, pyflakes, mccabe, and third-party plugins to check the style and quality of some python code. (by PyCQA)
prospector
Inspects Python source files and provides information about type and location of classes, methods etc (by landscapeio)
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| Flake8 | prospector | |
|---|---|---|
| 32 | 3 | |
| 3,252 | 1,904 | |
| 1.5% | 0.5% | |
| 7.5 | 5.8 | |
| 2 days ago | 14 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Flake8
Posts with mentions or reviews of Flake8.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-18.
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Enhance Your Project Quality with These Top Python Libraries
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.
- Django Code Formatting and Linting Made Easy: A Step-by-Step Pre-commit Hook Tutorial
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Enhancing Python Code Quality: A Comprehensive Guide to Linting with Ruff
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.
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Which is your favourite or go-to YouTube channel for being up-to-date on Python?
He made yesqa and pyupgrade (among others), and also works on flake8. His main job is for https://sentry.io/.
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The Power of Pre-Commit for Python Developers: Tips and Best Practices
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
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Is it considered rude to completely change the formatting of someone else's code when making a PR?
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.
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Ruff: one Python linter to rule them all
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".
- Improve your Django Code with pre-commit
- Even the Pylint codebase uses Ruff
prospector
Posts with mentions or reviews of prospector.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-16.
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The Ruff python linter is insanely good
Just before discovering ruff, I was already migrating to PyCQA/prospector to simplify my configs...
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Prospector vs running pylint/pycodestyle/mypy/etc individually?
I've been using linters like pylint and pycodestyle/pep8 for a while, but only recently came across the PyCQA project prospector. If I understand correctly, it basically wraps the other linting tools and gives them less-noisy defaults. It looks like it also has optional support for tools like mypy, bandit (security issues), and vulture (dead code detection).
Looking into it, I'm surprised as well. They're also both PyCQA projects, albeit with different maintainers. It's also kind of odd that prospector's pre-commit config runs both prospector and flake8 -- that seems redundant.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Flake8 and prospector you can also consider the following projects:
Pylint - It's not just a linter that annoys you!
black - The uncompromising Python code formatter [Moved to: https://github.com/psf/black]
autopep8 - A tool that automatically formats Python code to conform to the PEP 8 style guide.
pylama - Code audit tool for python.
autoflake - Removes unused imports and unused variables as reported by pyflakes
black - The uncompromising Python code formatter
bandit - Bandit is a tool designed to find common security issues in Python code.
ruff - An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust.
pycodestyle - Simple Python style checker in one Python file
mypy - Optional static typing for Python