Clean Code in Python

Checking the code with Pylint

There are many tools for checking the structure of the code (basically, this is compliance with PEP-8) in Python, such as pycodestyle (formerly known as PEP-8), Flake8, and many more. They all are configurable and are as easy to use as running the command they provide. Among all of them, I have found Pylint to be the most complete (and strict). It is also configurable.

Again, you just have to install it in the virtual environment with pip:

$ pip install pylint

Then, just running the pylint command would be enough to check it in the code.

It is possible to configure Pylint via a configuration file named pylintrc.

In this file, you can decide the rules you would like to enable or disable, and parametrize others ...