The Python Papers

The Python Papers

An Intro to Ruff

An extremely fast Python linter, written in Rust.

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Mike Driscoll
Jun 26, 2023
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What is linting? A linter will help you find syntactical and stylistic issues with your code. Python has several great 3rd party linting tools.

Here are the two most famous ones:

  • pylint

  • Flake8

Innumerable projects use Flake8 to help find problems in their project’s code before that code is committed. Many also use pylint too, but you won’t hear or see it us…

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