lintkit

lintkit is a framework for building linters/code checking rules

Multiple formats: Python-first, but supports YAML, JSON and TOML
Comprehensive: noqa comments, file skips and standardized pretty output
Quick: Create and run custom rules in a few lines of code
Flexible: Rules over file(s), their subelements and more (see Files tutorial)
Minimal: Gentle learning curve - <1000 lines of code, tutorials, API reference

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Quick start

[!TIP] Check out more examples (here) to get a better feel of lintkit.

Below are ~20 lines of code implementing custom linter with two rules and running it on three files:

import lintkit

# Set the name of the linter
lintkit.settings.name = "NOUTILS"


class _NoUtils(lintkit.check.Regex, lintkit.loader.Python, lintkit.rule.Node):
    def regex(self):
        # Regex to match util(s) variations in function/class name
        return r"_?[Uu]til(s|ities)?"

    def values(self):
        # Yield class or function names from a Python file
        data = self.getitem("nodes_map")
        for node in data[self.ast_class()]:
            yield lintkit.Value.from_python(node.name, node)

    def message(self, _):
        return f"{self.ast_class()} name contains util(s) word"


# Concrete rules and their codes
# Disabling linter using noqas supported out of the box!
class ClassNoUtils(_NoUtils, code=0):  # noqa: NOUTILS0
    # ast type we want to focus on in this rule
    def ast_class(self):
        return ast.ClassDef


class FunctionNoUtils(_NoUtils, code=1):  # noqa: NOUTILS0
    def ast_class(self):
        return ast.FunctionDef


lintkit.run(["linter.py", "file1.py", "file2.py"])

# Example output
# /path/file1.py:23:17 NOUTILS0: ClassDef name contains util(s) word
# /path/file2.py:73:21 NOUTILS1: FunctionDef name contains util(s) word

Installation

[!TIP] You can use your favorite package manager like uv, hatch or pdm instead of pip.

> pip install lintkit

[!NOTE] lintkit provides extras (rich, toml, yaml and all containing everything) to provide additional functionality.

# To create rules utilizing YAML
> pip install lintkit[rich, yaml]

Learn

Check out the following links to learn more about lintkit:

Contribute

We welcome your contributions! Start here:

Legal

This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License - see the LICENSE file for details.
This project is copyrighted by open-nudge - the appropriate copyright notice is included in each file.

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