What is linting?

[p-pxmpo]

Can someone explain what linting is? Im seeing seeing some of the pull requests saying an "all checks have failed" message by something called pylint.

[avgagliardo]

Linting is the process of making your code conform to the stylistic guidelines that help keep code easy to read, maintain, and extend.

If you are interested check out PEP8 which outlines the the conventions for writing software with python.

The linter is usually a process where an automated worker goes through your code to analyze how closely it conforms to these guidelines.

[laserlab]

Can someone explain what linting is? Im seeing seeing some of the pull requests saying an "all checks have failed" message by something called pylint.

we also have covered that in class in slides (on discord) and in a hands on session (see: ubsuny/CompPyhys/ReviewPython/linting)

[p-pxmpo]

thank you