Glossary

First of all, we should speak the same language. Here we collect all the specific terms that are used in this project.

plugin

A plugin for flake8, developed following official guides.

wemake_python_styleguide

flake8 plugin.

Set of rules of how we write python code in wemake.services.

checker

flake8 plugin compatible class that is used as an entry point. Entry point and violation codes are defined in pyproject.toml. This class runs all visitors that exist in our style guide.

visitor

An object that goes through set of ast, tokenize, or other nodes to find violation of our rules.

violation

Stylistic or semantic error.

We count each violation definition as a strict rule: how should we behave in different situations.

Each violation has its own reasoning, solution, and code examples. Some violations can be configured, some violations contains related constants.