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The Best Python Static Analysis Tools (Linters/Formatters)

We rank 118 Python linters, code analyzers, formatters, and more. Find and compare tools like Black, Mega-Linter, mypy, and more. Please rate and review tools that you've used. This helps others find the best tools for their projects.

53 Python Tools

Black

The uncompromising Python code formatter.

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  • 87% upvoted

mypy

A static type checker that aims to combine the benefits of duck typing and static typing, frequently used with MonkeyType.

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  • 92% upvoted

flake8

A wrapper around pyflakes, pycodestyle and mccabe.

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  • 90% upvoted

pylint

Looks for programming errors, helps enforcing a coding standard and sniffs for some code smells. It additionally includes pyreverse (an UML diagram generator) and symilar (a similarities checker).

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  • 85% upvoted

ruff

Fast Python linter, written in Rust. 10-100x faster than existing linters. Compatible with Python 3.10. Supports file watcher.

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  • 96% upvoted

bandit

A tool to find common security issues in Python code.

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  • 81% upvoted

pyright

Static type checker for Python, created to address gaps in existing tools like mypy.

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  • 90% upvoted

jedi

Autocompletion/static analysis library for Python.

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  • 82% upvoted

pycodestyle

(Formerly pep8) Check Python code against some of the style conventions in PEP 8.

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  • 100% upvoted

wemake-python-styleguide

The strictest and most opinionated python linter ever.

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  • 76% upvoted

pydocstyle

Check compliance with Python docstring conventions.

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  • 90% upvoted

unimport

A linter, formatter for finding and removing unused import statements.

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  • 100% upvoted

pyflakes

Check Python source files for errors.

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  • 73% upvoted

vulture

Find unused classes, functions and variables in Python code.

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  • 75% upvoted

Pysa

A tool based on Facebook's pyre-check to identify potential security issues in Python code identified with taint analysis.

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  • 64% upvoted

bellybutton

A linting engine supporting custom project-specific rules.

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  • 75% upvoted

Dlint

A tool for ensuring Python code is secure.

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  • 63% upvoted

prospector

A wrapper around pylint, pep8, mccabe and others.

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  • 75% upvoted

PyT - Python Taint

A static analysis tool for detecting security vulnerabilities in Python web applications.

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  • 100% upvoted

pytype

A static type analyzer for Python code.

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  • 75% upvoted

xenon

Monitor code complexity using radon.

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  • 67% upvoted

Bowler

Safe code refactoring for modern Python. Bowler is a refactoring tool for manipulating Python at the syntax tree level. It enables safe, large scale code modifications while guaranteeing that the resulting code compiles and runs. It provides both a simple command line interface and a fluent API in Python for generating complex code modifications in code.

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  • 100% upvoted

InspectorTiger

IT, Inspector Tiger, is a modern python code review tool / framework. It comes with bunch of pre-defined handlers which warns you about improvements and possible bugs. Beside these handlers, you can write your own or use community ones.

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  • 100% upvoted

mccabe

Check McCabe complexity.

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  • 67% upvoted

radon

A Python tool that computes various metrics from the source code.

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  • 67% upvoted

wily

A command-line tool for archiving, exploring and graphing the complexity of Python source code.

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  • 100% upvoted

CrossHair

Symbolic execution engine for testing Python contracts.

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  • 100% upvoted

Scalene

A high-performance, high-precision CPU and memory profiler for Python

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  • 100% upvoted

autoflake

Autoflake removes unused imports and unused variables from Python code.

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  • 0% upvoted

autopep8

A tool that automatically formats Python code to conform to the PEP 8 style guide. It uses the pycodestyle utility to determine what parts of the code needs to be formatted.

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  • 0% upvoted

cohesion

A tool for measuring Python class cohesion.

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  • 50% upvoted

deal

Design by contract for Python. Write bug-free code. By adding a few decorators to your code, you get for free tests, static analysis, formal verification, and much more.

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  • 0% upvoted

Dodgy

Dodgy is a very basic tool to run against your codebase to search for "dodgy" looking values. It is a series of simple regular expressions designed to detect things such as accidental SCM diff checkins, or passwords or secret keys hard coded into files.

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  • 0% upvoted

ENRE-py

ENRE (ENtity Relationship Extractor) is a tool for extraction of code entity dependencies or relationships from source code. ENRE-py is a ENtity Relationship Extractor for Python based on Python Language Services of The Standard Library.

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  • 0% upvoted

flakeheaven

flakeheaven is a python linter built around flake8 to enable inheritable and complex toml configuration.

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  • 0% upvoted

Griffe

Signatures for entire Python programs. Extract the structure, the frame, the skeleton of your project, to generate API documentation or find breaking changes in your API.

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  • 0% upvoted

linty fresh

Parse lint errors and report them to Github as comments on a pull request.

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  • 50% upvoted

multilint

A wrapper around flake8, isort and modernize.

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  • 0% upvoted

py-find-injection

Find SQL injection vulnerabilities in Python code.

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  • 0% upvoted

PyCodeQual

PyCodeQual gives you insights into complexity and bug risks. It adds automatic reviews to your pull requests.

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  • 0% upvoted

pylyzers

A static code analyzer / language server for Python, written in Rust, focused on type checking and readable output.

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  • 0% upvoted

pyre-check

A fast, scalable type checker for large Python codebases.

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  • 50% upvoted

pyroma

Rate how well a Python project complies with the best practices of the Python packaging ecosystem, and list issues that could be improved.

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  • 50% upvoted

pyupgrade

A tool (and pre-commit hook) to automatically upgrade syntax for newer versions of the language.

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  • 0% upvoted

QuantifiedCode

Automated code review & repair. It helps you to keep track of issues and metrics in your software projects, and can be easily extended to support new types of analyses.

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  • 0% upvoted

refurb

A tool for refurbishing and modernizing Python codebases. Refurb is heavily inspired by clippy, the built-in linter for Rust.

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  • 0% upvoted

yapf

A formatter for Python files created by Google YAPF follows a distinctive methodology, originating from the 'clang-format' tool created by Daniel Jasper. Essentially, the program reframes the code to the most suitable formatting that abides by the style guide, even if the original code already follows the style guide. This concept is similar to the Go programming language's 'gofmt' tool, which aims to put an end to debates about formatting by having the entire codebase of a project pass through YAPF whenever changes are made, thereby maintaining a consistent style throughout the project and eliminating the need to argue about style in every code review.

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  • 0% upvoted

DynaPyt

DynaPyt is a framework for writing dynamic analyses for Python. The analyses can also modify runtime values to alter the execution.

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  • 0% upvoted

icontract

Design-by-contract library supporting behavioral subtyping There is also a wider tooling around the icontract library such as a linter (pyicontract-lint) and a plug-in for Sphinx (sphinx-icontract).

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  • 0% upvoted

typo

Runtime Type Checking for Python 3.

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  • 0% upvoted

ciocheck

Linter, formatter and test suite helper. As a linter, it is a wrapper around pep8, pydocstyle, flake8, and pylint.

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  • 33% upvoted

pyanalyze

A tool for programmatically detecting common mistakes in Python code, such as references to undefined variables and type errors. It can be extended to add additional rules and perform checks specific to particular functions.

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  • 0% upvoted

fixit

A framework for creating lint rules and corresponding auto-fixes for source code.

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  • 0% upvoted

65 Multi-Language Tools

Mega-Linter

Mega-Linter can handle any type of project thanks to its 70+ embedded Linters, its advanced reporting, runnable on any CI system or locally, with assisted installation and configuration, able to apply formatting and fixes

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  • 67% upvoted

Semgrep

Sponsor

A fast, open-source, static analysis tool for finding bugs and enforcing code standards at editor, commit, and CI time. Its rules look like the code you already write; no abstract syntax trees or regex wrestling. Supports 17+ languages.

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  • 78% upvoted

SonarQube

SonarQube empowers development teams with a code quality and security solution that deeply integrates into your enterprise environment; enabling you to deploy clean code consistently and reliably. SonarQube provides a free and open source Community Edition.

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  • 68% upvoted

Sonatype

Reports known vulnerabilities in common dependencies and recommends updated packages to minimize breaking changes

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  • 72% upvoted

ThreatMapper

Vulnerability Scanner and Risk Evaluation for containers, serverless and hosts at runtime. ThreatMapper generates runtime BOMs from dependencies and operating system packages, matches against multiple threat feeds, scans for unprotected secrets, and scores issues based on severity and risk-of-exploit.

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  • 83% upvoted

Sigrid

Sigrid helps you to improve your software by measuring your system's code quality, and then compares the results against a benchmark of thousands of industry systems to give you concrete advice on areas where you can improve.

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  • 92% upvoted

CodeScene

CodeScene is a quality visualization tool for software. Prioritize technical debt, detect delivery risks, and measure organizational aspects. Fully automated.

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  • 62% upvoted

trunk

Modern repositories include many technologies, each with its own set of linters. With 30+ linters and counting, Trunk makes it dead-simple to identify, install, configure, and run the right linters, static analyzers, and formatters for all your repos.

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  • 77% upvoted

DeepSource

In-depth static analysis to find issues in verticals of bug risks, security, anti-patterns, performance, documentation and style. Native integrations with GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket. Less than 5% false positives.

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  • 69% upvoted

Coverity

Synopsys Coverity supports 20 languages and over 70 frameworks including Ruby on rails, Scala, PHP, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Fortran, C, C++, C#, VB.NET.

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  • 62% upvoted

Pixee

Sponsor

Pixeebot finds security and code quality issues in your code and creates merge-ready pull requests with recommended fixes.

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  • 94% upvoted

Better Code Hub

Better Code Hub checks your GitHub codebase against 10 engineering guidelines devised by the authority in software quality, Software Improvement Group.

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  • 68% upvoted

Codemodder

Codemodder is a pluggable framework for building expressive codemods. Use Codemodder when you need more than a linter or code formatting tool. Use it to fix non-trivial security issues and other code quality problems.

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  • 100% upvoted

DerScanner

Multi-language Static Application Security Testing (SAST) platform that detects critical vulnerabilities, including hardcoded secrets, weak cryptography, backdoors, SQL injections, insecure configurations, etc.

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  • 100% upvoted

callGraph

Statically generates a call graph image and displays it on screen.

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  • 73% upvoted

DeepCode

DeepCode was acquired by Snyk is now Snyk Code.

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  • 57% upvoted

codeql

Deep code analysis - semantic queries and dataflow for several languages with VSCode plugin support.

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  • 65% upvoted

Codacy

Code Analysis to ship Better Code, Faster.

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  • 56% upvoted

Codeac

Automated code review tool integrates with GitHub, Bitbucket and GitLab (even self-hosted). Available for JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Ruby, Go, PHP, Java, Docker, and more. (open-source free)

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  • 67% upvoted

Checkmarx CxSAST

Commercial Static Code Analysis which doesn't require pre-compilation.

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  • 52% upvoted

ale

Asynchronous Lint Engine for Vim and NeoVim with support for many languages.

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  • 67% upvoted

Codety

Codety Scanner is a comprehensive source code scanner that embeds 5000+ static code analysis rules, which aim to detect code issues for 20+ programming languages and IaC tools.

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  • 60% upvoted

cpp-linter-action

A Github Action for linting C/C++ code integrating clang-tidy and clang-format to collect feedback provided in the form of thread comments and/or annotations.

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  • 67% upvoted

imhotep

Comment on commits coming into your repository and check for syntactic errors and general lint warnings.

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  • 100% upvoted

Precaution

Precaution is a static analysis security tool (SAST) designed to find potentially critical vulnerabilities in source code prior to production. It is available as a CLI, GitHub Action, and GitHub App.

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  • 100% upvoted

Atom-Beautify

Beautify HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, C, C++, C#, Objective-C, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Coldfusion, SQL, and more in Atom editor.

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  • 50% upvoted

Codiga

Automated Code Reviews and Technical Debt management platform that supports 12+ languages.

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  • 50% upvoted

include-gardener

A multi-language static analyzer for C/C++/Obj-C/Python/Ruby to create a graph (in dot or graphml format) which shows all #include relations of a given set of files.

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  • 0% upvoted

Kiuwan

Identify and remediate cyber threats in a blazingly fast, collaborative environment, with seamless integration in your SDLC. Python, C\C++, Java, C#, PHP and more.

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  • 50% upvoted

lizard

Lizard is an extensible Cyclomatic Complexity Analyzer for many programming languages including C/C++ (doesn't require all the header files or Java imports). It also does copy-paste detection (code clone detection/code duplicate detection) and many other forms of static code analysis. Counts lines of code without comments, CCN (cyclomatic complexity number), token count of functions, parameter count of functions.

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  • 50% upvoted

MOPSA

A static analyzer designed to easily reuse abstract domains across widely different languages (such as C and Python).

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  • 0% upvoted

pylama

Code audit tool for Python and JavaScript. Wraps pycodestyle, pydocstyle, PyFlakes, Mccabe, Pylint, and more

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  • 0% upvoted

Scrutinizer

A proprietary code quality checker that can be integrated with GitHub.

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  • 50% upvoted

Snyk Code

Snyk Code finds security vulnerabilities based on AI. Its speed of analysis allow us to analyse your code in real time and deliver results when you hit the save button in your IDE. Supported languages are Java, JavaScript, Python, PHP, C#, Go and TypeScript. Integrations with GitHub, BitBucket and Gitlab. It is free to try and part of the Snyk platform also covering SCA, containers and IaC.

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  • 50% upvoted

TencentCodeAnalysis

Tencent Cloud Code Analysis (TCA for short, code-named CodeDog inside the company early) is a comprehensive platform for code analysis and issue tracking. TCA consist of three components, server, web and client. It integrates of a number of self-developed tools, and also supports dynamic integration of code analysis tools in various programming languages.

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  • 50% upvoted

Unibeautify

Universal code beautifier with a GitHub app. Supports HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX, Vue, C++, Go, Objective-C, Java, Python, PHP, GraphQL, Markdown, and more.

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  • 50% upvoted

Betterscan CE

Sponsor

Checks your code and infra (various Git repositories supported, cloud stacks, CLI, Web Interface platform, integrationss available) for security and quality issues. Code Scanning/SAST/Linting using many tools/Scanners deduplicated with One Report (AI optional).

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  • 40% upvoted

Cobra

Structural source code analyzer by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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  • 43% upvoted

CodeSee

CodeSee is mapping and automating your app's services, directories, file dependencies, and code changes. It's like Google Map, but for code.t

  • MaintainedMaintained
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  • 33% upvoted

pfff

Facebook's tools for code analysis, visualizations, or style-preserving source transformation for many languages.

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  • 43% upvoted

relint

A static file linter that allows you to write custom rules using regular expressions (RegEx).

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  • 33% upvoted

SonarCloud

SonarCloud enables your team to deliver clean code consistently and efficiently with a code review tool that easily integrates into the cloud DevOps platforms and extend your CI/CD workflow. SonarCloud is free for open source projects.

  • MaintainedMaintained
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  • 47% upvoted

Synopsys

A commercial static analysis platform that allows for scanning of multiple languages (C/C++, Android, C#, Java, JS, PHP, Python, Node.JS, Ruby, Fortran, and Swift).

  • MaintainedMaintained
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  • 43% upvoted

todocheck

Linter for integrating annotated TODOs with your issue trackers

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  • 44% upvoted

ApplicationInspector

Creates reports of over 400 rule patterns for feature detection (e.g. the use of cryptography or version control in apps).

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  • 38% upvoted

CodeFactor

Automated Code Analysis for repos on GitHub or BitBucket.

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  • 40% upvoted

CodeFlow

Automated code analysis tool to deal with technical depth. Integrates with Bitbucket and Gitlab. (free for Open Source Projects)

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  • Maintainedservice
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 33% upvoted

OpenRewrite

OpenRewrite fixes common static analysis issues reported through Sonar and other tools using a Maven and Gradle plugin or the Moderne CLI.

  • MaintainedMaintained
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  • Maintainedcli
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  • 0% upvoted

OpenStaticAnalyzer

OpenStaticAnalyzer is a source code analyzer tool, which can perform deep static analysis of the source code of complex systems.

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  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 0% upvoted

Qwiet AI

Identify vulnerabilities that are unique to your code base before they reach production. Leverages the Code Property Graph (CPG) to run its analyses concurrently in a single graph of graphs. Automatically finds business logic flaws in dev like hardcoded secrets and logic bombs

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  • Maintainedlinter
  • 0% upvoted

Semgrep Supply Chain

Quickly find and remediate high-priority security issues. Semgrep Supply Chain prioritizes the 2% of vulnerabilities that are reachable from your code.

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  • 0% upvoted

SourceMeter

Static Code Analysis for C/C++, Java, C#, Python, and RPG III and RPG IV versions (including free-form).

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  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 0% upvoted

autocorrect

A linter and formatter to help you to improve copywriting, correct spaces, words, punctuations between CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean).

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  • MaintainedlinterMaintainedformatter
  • 0% upvoted

emerge

Emerge is a source code and dependency visualizer that can be used to gather insights about source code structure, metrics, dependencies and complexity of software projects. After scanning the source code of a project it provides you an interactive web interface to explore and analyze your project by using graph structures.

  • MaintainedMaintained
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  • MaintainedcliMaintainedservice
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 20% upvoted

graudit

Grep rough audit - source code auditing tool.

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  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 29% upvoted

SonarLint

SonarLint is a free IDE extension available for IntelliJ, VS Code, Visual Studio, and Eclipse, to find and fix coding issues in real-time, flagging issues as you code, just like a spell-checker. More than a linter, it also delivers rich contextual guidance to help developers understand why there is an issue, assess the risk, and educate them on how to fix it.

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  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 29% upvoted

StaticReviewer

Static Reviewer executes code checks according to the most relevant Secure Coding Standards, OWASP, CWE, CVE, CVSS, MISRA, CERT, for 40+ programming languages, using 1000+ built-in validation rules for Security, Deadcode & Best Practices Available a module for Software Composition Analysis (SCA) to find vulnerabilities in open source and third party libraries.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 36% upvoted

DevSkim

Regex-based static analysis tool for Visual Studio, VS Code, and Sublime Text - C/C++, C#, PHP, ASP, Python, Ruby, Java, and others.

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  • Maintainedide-plugin
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 33% upvoted

Fortify

A commercial static analysis platform that supports the scanning of C/C++, C#, VB.NET, VB6, ABAP/BSP, ActionScript, Apex, ASP.NET, Classic ASP, VB Script, Cobol, ColdFusion, HTML, Java, JS, JSP, MXML/Flex, Objective-C, PHP, PL/SQL, T-SQL, Python (2.6, 2.7), Ruby (1.9.3), Swift, Scala, VB, and XML.

  • MaintainedMaintained
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  • Maintainedide-plugin
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 46% upvoted

LGTM

Find security vulnerabilities, variants, and critical code quality issues using CodeQL queries over source code. Automatic PR code review; free for open source. Formerly semmle. It supports public Git repositories hosted on Bitbucket Cloud, GitHub.com, GitLab.com.

  • MaintainedMaintained
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  • Maintainedservice
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 0% upvoted

CAST Highlight

Commercial Static Code Analysis which runs locally, but uploads the results to its cloud for presentation.

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  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 27% upvoted

Super-Linter

Combination of multiple linters to install as a GitHub Action.

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  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 31% upvoted

Understand

Code visualization tool that provides code analysis, standards testing, metrics, graphing, dependency analysis and more for Ada, VHDL, and others.

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  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 43% upvoted

ShiftLeft Scan

Scan is a free open-source DevSecOps platform for detecting security issues in source code and dependencies. It supports a broad range of languages and CI/CD pipelines.

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  • MaintainedcliMaintainedservice
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 38% upvoted

Embold

Intelligent software analytics platform that identifies design issues, code issues, duplication and metrics. Supports Java, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go, Kotlin and more.

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  • Maintainedservice
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 10% upvoted

Frequently Asked Questions

What are Python tools?

Python is an interpreted, high-level and general-purpose programming language. Created by Guido van Rossum and first released in 1991, Python's design philosophy emphasizes code readability with its notable use of significant whitespace. Its language constructs and object-oriented approach aim to help programmers write clear, logical code for small and large-scale projects. Python is dynamically typed and garbage-collected. It supports multiple programming paradigms, including structured (particularly, procedural), object-oriented, and functional programming. Python is often described as a "batteries included" language due to its comprehensive standard library.

What are the best Python static analysis tools and linters?

The most popular Python tools ranked by user votes are: Black, Mega-Linter, mypy, Semgrep, flake8.

Which Python tools are free to use?

Tools with a free plan include trunk, DeepSource, Pixee, Better Code Hub, Precaution, Codiga, PyCodeQual, CodeSee, OpenStaticAnalyzer, SourceMeter, Embold. On top of that, there are also a number of open source like Black, Mega-Linter, mypy, Semgrep, flake8, SonarQube, pylint, Sonatype, ThreatMapper, ruff.

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