I’m relatively new to Python, so I’m trying my best to develop good habits while coding. For example, I’ve read through PEP 8 and have been attempting to adhere to it’s style guidelines. Switching to Komodo from nano has helped, but now I’ve found another tool.

It’s called Pylint (similar to lint):

Pylint is a python tool that checks if a module satisfy a coding standard. Pylint can be seen as another PyChecker since nearly all tests you can do with PyChecker can also be done with Pylint. But Pylint offers some more features, like checking line-code’s length, checking if variable names are well-formed according to your coding standard, or checking if declared interfaces are truly implemented, and much more.

Sure, it checks for syntax/logical errors, which is nice (but Komodo nicer). But it’s the style checks and ultimate quality rating that are interesting to me. I ran it against some of my Python Challenge solutions, and it was giving me a 6 to 7 out of 10. Lots of room for improvement.

My goal is to make all of my code quite tasty indeed. :)

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