Running Pylint Against Your Code

Pylint is a best-practice analysis tool that is used to flag coding errors, including, but not limited to, false-positives, syntax errors, and style errors in Python. Pylint follows the style recommended by the Python style guide or PEP 8.

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Run through the steps in Setting Up a Dev Environment prior to modifying/testing code.

Visit here for an article on Linting Python in Visual Studio Code. The article provides information on the following Pylint topics:

• Enable linters
• Disable linting
• Run linting
• General linting settings
• Specific linters
• Pylint
• pydocstyle
• pycodestyle (pep8)
• Prospector
• Flake8
• mypy
• Troubleshooting linting

Manually Running PyLint

1. Navigate to the task's base folder.
2. Activate the virtual environment.
3. Run Pylint and fix any discovered issues if you can.

   pylint [file name]