flake8 Alternatives

flake8 is described as 'Flake8 is a wrapper around PyFlakes, pep8 and Ned Batchelder's McCabe script and displays the warnings in a per-file, merged output' and is an app in the development category. There are nine alternatives to flake8 for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Python and BSD apps. The best flake8 alternative is ty, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like flake8 are Pyrefly, Ruff, PyLint and PyChecker.

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  1. ty icon

    ty

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    An extremely fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • Docker
    • Python
     

    • ty is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to flake8.

    • ty is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to flake8.

    • ty is Free and Open Sourceflake8 is also Free and Open Source
  2. Pyrefly icon

    Pyrefly

     1 like

    Pyrefly is a type checker and language server for Python, which provides lightning-fast type checking along with IDE features such as code navigation, semantic highlighting, and code completion. It is available as a command-line tool and a VSCode extension.

    16 Pyrefly alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Python
    • Visual Studio Code
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • BSD
     
  4. Ruff icon

    Ruff

     1 like

    An extremely fast Python linter, written in Rust.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Python
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  5. PyLint

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    A Python source code analyzer which looks for programming errors, it helps to enforce a coding standard and to sniff for some code.

    13 PyLint alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
    PyLint screenshot 1
     

  6. PyChecker

     1 like

    PyChecker is a tool for finding bugs in Python source code. It finds problems that are typically caught by a compiler for less dynamic languages, like C and C++ and is similar to lint. Because of the dynamic nature of python, some warnings may be incorrect; however, spurious...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     

  7. PEP8

     1 like

    pep8 is a tool to check your Python code against some of the style conventions in PEP 8.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     

  9. PyFlakes

     1 like

    A simple program which checks Python source files for errors.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Pyright

     Like

    Static type checker for Python.

    16 Pyright alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
     

  11. PEP 257

     Like

    Python PEP 257 docstring style checker.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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