See Also
Prospector
Prospector is a wrapper around the following tools:
- pylint (very through linter and error detector)
- pycodestyle (checks formatting for violations of PEP 8)
- Pyflakes (error detector)
- McCabe (complexity checker)
- Dodgy (simple regex check to detect accidental SCM diff checkins or secrets hard coded into files)
- Pydocstyle (docstring checker)
- Pyroma (checks
setup.pyfiles) - Vulture (finds unused code)
- Frosted (fork of Pyflakes)
- Mypy (type checker)
- Bandit (finds common security issues)
The primary aim of Prospector is to be useful out of the box. A common complaint of other Python analysis tools is that it takes a long time to filter through which errors are relevant. Prospector provides some default profiles, which hopefully will provide a good starting point and will be useful straight away.
Pylance
Pylance (ms-python.vscode-pylance) is the default language support
for the Python extension (ms-python.python) in Visual Studio Code.
It relies on the type checker pyright, but does much more:
- docstring
- parameter suggestion
- code completion
- auto-imports
- code navigation
Pylama
Pylama is a wrapper around other tools. As of mid-2023, it doesn't seem to be actively maintained anymore. Pylama wraps these tools:
- pycodestyle (checks formatting for violations of PEP 8)
- pydocstyle (docstring checker)
- PyFlakes (error detector)
- McCabe (complexity checker)
- Pylint (very through linter and error detector)
- Radon (computes various metrics from source code, such as McCabe's complexity, SLOC, Halstead metrics, etc.)
- eradicate (removes commented-out code)
- Mypy (type checker)
- Vulture (finds unused code)
Last update:
September 12, 2023