pylint¶

We are not related to the pylint project. Yes, we know that it is awesome. But, it has some drawbacks:

It makes a lot of type assertions. And does it incorrectly. Since we use mypy there is no sense in this feature. Without this feature a lot of other pylint features looses its point as well
There are less exisitng plugins for pylint than for flake8
It uses custom ast parser and library, which can be problematic
It is not strict enough for us. So, we will have to write our own plugin no matter what platform we use

However, it is important to mention that pylint is less radical and more classic in its rules.

wemake-python-styleguide and pylint shares a lot in common. They are almost compatible with each other. The difference is in:

Several minor rules like class Some(object): vs class Some:
Error codes
Python versions, because pylint covers more versions
wemake-python-styleguide is stricter and finds more violatons than pylint

We also run pylint on the wemake-python-styleguide source code with the help of deepsource.io and keep the errors count at 0.