wemake-python-styleguide: The Strict and Opinionated Python Linter You Need
Welcome to the strictest and most opinionated Python linter ever. wemake-python-styleguide is not just a linter, it is a flake8 plugin with additional dependencies that offers a comprehensive solution for ensuring code quality and maintainability in Python projects.
Quickstart
To start using wemake-python-styleguide, simply install it using pip:
bash
pip install wemake-python-styleguide
You will also need to create a setup.cfg file with the necessary configuration. Additionally, we highly recommend using the flakeheaven and nitpick plugins for easy integration into legacy codebases and sharing and validating configurations across multiple projects, respectively.
Running wemake-python-styleguide
Running wemake-python-styleguide is as easy as running flake8:
bash
flake8 your_module.py
This linter seamlessly integrates into your existing workflow, ensuring consistent coding styles and catching potential bugs early on.
Strict is the New Cool
Strict linting with wemake-python-styleguide offers several benefits to developers and companies:
- Ensures consistency: No matter who works on the codebase, the end product will always be the same dependable code.
- Helps avoid potential bugs: The strict rules enforced by wemake-python-styleguide prevent common mistakes and ensure better code quality.
- Efficient code reviews: Each piece of code follows a consistent style and syntax. If it passes all the checks, there’s little left to review!
- Fewer code revisions: Strict linting ensures that you don’t have to rewrite the codebase again and again, saving valuable time and effort.
- Reduces code redundancy: The linter offers suggestions that help simplify the code and eliminate redundant statements, resulting in cleaner and more efficient code.
What We Are About
The ultimate goal of wemake-python-styleguide is to make all people write exactly the same Python code. It achieves this by enforcing strict rules and best practices in the following areas:
- Code formatting (black-style)
- Style issues (flake8 functionality)
- Bug detection (pylint functionality)
- Complexity reduction
- “One obvious way to do it” coding and naming styles
- Error prevention and best practices enforcement
You can find a complete list of error codes and additional plugins in the official documentation.
What We Are Not
While wemake-python-styleguide is a powerful linter, there are certain things it does not aim to do:
- Assume or check types: It is recommended to use an additional tool like mypy together with our linter for comprehensive type checking.
- Reformat code: wemake-python-styleguide believes that developers should take responsibility for code formatting. However, it does offer integrations with auto-formatters like black.
- Check for syntax errors or logical bugs: These tasks are better suited for automated testing frameworks. Write tests instead to ensure code correctness.
- Appeal to everyone: While we strive to provide a comprehensive and opinionated set of rules for code quality, you can easily switch off any rules that you don’t want to enforce, giving you the flexibility to tailor the linter to your specific needs.
Supporting Us
wemake-services is a community-focused organization that believes in open-source tools that benefit the community. If you find our tools, including wemake-python-styleguide, valuable and they bring business value to your projects, consider supporting our work. We warmly welcome all contributions and support at various sponsorship levels. Join us in making the Python ecosystem better and more reliable.
Show Your Style
If you use wemake-python-styleguide, you can be proud of your code! Showcase your accomplishment by including a badge in your README file:
You can add this badge using either Markdown or Restructured text, as shown in the documentation.
Contributing
We invite and welcome all contributions to wemake-python-styleguide. You can contribute by submitting issues, bug reports, or even code improvements. Check out the “Contributing” section in the documentation for more information. If you want to start contributing right away, you can find a list of issues that need assistance on our GitHub page.
By contributing to wemake-python-styleguide, you become part of the vibrant community that helps shape the future of this powerful linter.
Get started with wemake-python-styleguide today and take your Python code to the next level of quality and maintainability!
By Dr. Emily Techscribe
Tags: Python, linter, code quality, maintainability, flake8, style guide
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