flakehell vs flake8-comments

flakehell

Flake8 wrapper to make it nice, legacy-friendly, configurable. (by life4)

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flake8-comments

Report redundant comments in python code (by orsinium-labs)

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flakehell		flake8-comments
	Project
1	Mentions	8
224	Stars	9
-	Growth	-
0.8	Activity	2.6
over 3 years ago	Latest Commit	almost 3 years ago
Python	Language	Python
MIT License	License	MIT License

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flakehell

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[Rant] configuration files for different tools madness
1 project | /r/Python | 26 Dec 2021

I was having one of those days too and found this https://github.com/life4/flakehell it's a cool project but needs some maintainers.

flake8-comments

Posts with mentions or reviews of flake8-comments. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-07.

beartype: It has documentation now. It only took two years, my last hair follicle, precious sanity points (SPs), and working with Sphinx. Don't be like @leycec. Go hard on documentation early.
3 projects | /r/Python | 7 Mar 2023

Useless comments are my old enemy. I try to come up with objective metrics but I have only a few so far. If anyone curious, I have flake8-comments to find comments like that.
flake8-comments: Report redundant comments in python code
1 project | /r/Python | 2 Oct 2022

1 project | /r/opensource | 26 Sep 2022

1 project | /r/madeinpython | 8 Jul 2022

1 project | /r/coding | 18 Apr 2022

1 project | /r/pythoncoding | 9 Apr 2022

1 project | /r/opensource | 2 Mar 2022

1 project | /r/coding | 26 Feb 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing flakehell and flake8-comments you can also consider the following projects:

flake8-length - Flake8 plugin for a smart line length validation.

django-comments-xtd - A pluggable Django comments application with thread support, follow-up notifications, mail confirmation, like/dislike flags, moderation, a ReactJS plugin and Bootstrap 5.3.

flake8-codes - CLI tool to introspect flake8 plugins and their codes

koda-validate - Typesafe, Composable Validation

flake8-warnings - Python linter (flake8, pylint, CLI) that warns you about using deprecated modules, classes, and functions

flake8-todos - Lint TODO comments in a Python code

flake8-pylint - Flake8 plugin that runs PyLint

mccabe - McCabe complexity checker for Python

openSUSE_QA_Updates - A command-line tool to view the latest builds of openSUSE Tumbleweed from openQA. 🧪

django-comments-ink - Django pluggable commenting app with comment threads, follow-up notifications, mail confirmation, comment reactions and votes, and comment moderation. It supersedes django-comments-xtd.

exception-control - Perform limited static analysis for uncaught exceptions in a Python file.