Utilities and helpers for writing Pylint plugins
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Author: Carl Crowder
Requires Python: >=3.9,<4.0
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- 5 - Production/Stable
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- Console
Intended Audience
- Developers
License
- OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v2 or later (GPLv2+)
Operating System
- Unix
Programming Language
- Python :: 3
- Python :: 3.9
- Python :: 3.10
- Python :: 3.11
- Python :: 3.12
- Python :: 3.13
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- Software Development :: Quality Assurance
pylint-plugin-utils
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About
Utilities and helpers for writing Pylint plugins. This is not a direct Pylint plugin, but rather a set of tools and functions used by other plugins such as pylint-django and pylint-celery.
Testing
Create virtualenv:
python3.8 -m venv .pylint-plugin-utils
source .pylint-plugin-utils/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade pip setuptools
We use tox for running the test suite. You should be able to install it with:
pip install tox pytest
To run the test suite for a particular Python version, you can do:
tox -e py39
To run individual tests with tox, you can do:
tox -e py39 -- -k test_linter_should_be_pickleable
We use pytest for testing pylint, which you can use without using tox for a faster development cycle.
If you want to run tests on a specific portion of the code with pytest, pytest-cov and your local python version::
pip install pytest-cov
# Everything:
python3 -m pytest tests/ --cov=pylint_plugin_utils
coverage html
License
pylint-plugin-utils is available under the GPLv2 License.
0.9.0
Jun 24, 2025
0.8.2
May 20, 2023
0.8.1
May 15, 2023
0.8
May 15, 2023
0.7
Dec 28, 2021
0.6
Sep 27, 2019
0.5
Feb 27, 2019
0.4
Jul 16, 2018
0.3
Jun 29, 2018
0.2.6
Mar 15, 2017
0.2.4
Jul 20, 2016
0.2.3
Jan 31, 2015
0.2.2
Sep 25, 2014
0.2.1
Jul 27, 2014
0.2
Jun 16, 2014
0.1.1
Jan 25, 2014
0.1
Oct 25, 2013
Wheel compatibility matrix
Files in release
Extras:
None
Dependencies:
pylint
(>=1.7)