pyflakes VS pydocstyle

Compare pyflakes vs pydocstyle and see what are their differences.

pyflakes

A simple program which checks Python source files for errors (by PyCQA)

pydocstyle

docstring style checker (by PyCQA)
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pyflakes pydocstyle
5 4
1,339 1,106
0.9% -
5.3 6.1
about 2 months ago 6 months ago
Python Python
MIT License MIT License
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pyflakes

Posts with mentions or reviews of pyflakes. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-18.

pydocstyle

Posts with mentions or reviews of pydocstyle. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-13.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pyflakes and pydocstyle you can also consider the following projects:

pycodestyle - Simple Python style checker in one Python file

mkdocstrings - :blue_book: Automatic documentation from sources, for MkDocs.

black - The uncompromising Python code formatter

pylama - Code audit tool for python.

autopep8 - A tool that automatically formats Python code to conform to the PEP 8 style guide.

isort - A Python utility / library to sort imports.

pyment - Format and convert Python docstrings and generates patches

mccabe - McCabe complexity checker for Python