watchpylint

A simple utility script which watches for changes in the given Python files, and runs pylint on them. It then groups the output together by message type and saves the output to a file.

It will run lint processes in parallel (up to 8), and also has an option to wait for output to be available before printing it. That allows you to set watchpylint -w lint.txt as your editor's linter or compiler for easy browsing of the output.

Example

cd ~/py/myproject
watchpylint *.py -o lint.txt

Then, in emacs:

M-x compile
watchpylint -w lint.txt