95 Python Static Analysis Tools

The uncompromising Python code formatter.

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

A static type checker that aims to combine the benefits of duck typing and static typing, frequently used with [MonkeyType](https://github.com/Instagram/MonkeyType).

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.

A wrapper around `pyflakes`, `pycodestyle` and `mccabe`.

SonarQube is an open platform to manage code quality.

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

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).

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.

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

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

A tool to find common security issues in Python code.

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.

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.

Autocompletion/static analysis library for Python.

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

DeepCode was acquired by Snyk is now Snyk Code.

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

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.

The strictest and most opinionated python linter ever.

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

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

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

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)

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

Check compliance with Python docstring conventions.

Scanmycode - Code Scanning/SAST/Linting using many tools/Scanners with One Report

Scanmycode - Code Scanning/SAST/Linting using many tools/Scanners with One Report

Check Python source files for errors.

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

An automated code reviewing tool. Improving developers' productivity.

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.

Code Analysis to ship Better Code, Faster.

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

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.

Find unused classes, functions and variables in Python code.

A linting engine supporting custom project-specific rules.

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.

A tool for ensuring Python code is secure.

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.

Enables code auditors and security teams to interactively investigate their unique code bases to find business logic flaws and technical vulnerabilities that traditional SASTs cannot. This is done by enabling the analyst to write their own custom queries. Can find hard-coded secrets, authentication issues, and malicious code like rootkits and backdoors.

A static type analyzer for Python code.

Linter for integrating annotated TODOs with your issue trackers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Check McCabe complexity.

A wrapper around `pylint`, `pep8`, `mccabe` and others.

A fast, scalable type checker for large Python codebases.

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

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

Monitor code complexity using [`radon`](https://github.com/rubik/radon).

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.

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

A tool for measuring Python class cohesion.

Grep rough audit - source code auditing tool.

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.

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

A wrapper around `flake8`, `isort` and `modernize`.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Multi-language cloud-based static code analysis. History, trends, security hot-spots, pull request analysis and more. Free for open source.

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

Combination of multiple linters to install as a GitHub Action.

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).

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.

Static code analysis for binary and source code - Java/Scala, PHP, Javascript, C#, PL/SQL, Python, T-SQL, C/C++, ObjectiveC/Swift, Visual Basic 6.0, Ruby, Delphi, ABAP, HTML5 and Solidity.

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

Automated Code Analysis for repos on GitHub or BitBucket.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.