multilint

Run multiple python linters easily.

Installation and Usage

Install with pip:

pip install multilint

Run with:

multilint

How It Works

I like to keep my projects tidy with a standard set of linters. Running them all turned out to be easier with a wrapper script, which I ended up copy-pasting between them all. This project stops me needing to copy/paste, centralizing running all these neat tools.

In order, it will check if these linters are installed, and if so, run them:

• flake8, to check code quality
• isort, in 'diff' mode to show where imports aren't sorted
• modernize, in 'diff' mode to show where python 2/3 compatibility with six is missing
• python setup.py check, to check your setup.py is well configured. This will require docutils, and also Pygments if your long_description uses any code highlighting.

If any of them fail, multilint stops and dies with a non-zero exit code. Otherwise it succeeds!

You need to configure the paths that will be linted (by default, only setup.py is linted). Put a section in your setup.cfg like:

[tool:multilint]
paths = my_package
        tests
        setup.py

Usage With tox

I normally run my tests with tox. An example tox.ini to use multilint to do your linting on both Python 2.7 and 3.5 would look like:

[tox]
envlist =
    py{27,35},
    py{27,35}-codestyle

[testenv]
deps = -rrequirements.txt
commands = pytest

[testenv:py27-codestyle]
commands = multilint

[testenv:py35-codestyle]
commands = multilint

THen just put multilint, plus the linters you want it to run (e.g. flake8) in your requirements.txt.