PEP8 Alternatives

PEP8 is described as 'Pep8 is a tool to check your Python code against some of the style conventions in PEP 8' and is an app in the development category. There are seven alternatives to PEP8 for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Python and BSD apps. The best PEP8 alternative is ty, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like PEP8 are Pyrefly, Ruff, PyLint and Pyright.

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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
     
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    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.

    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.

    13 Ruff alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

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

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
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  6. Pyright icon

    Pyright

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    Static type checker for Python.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
     
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    flake8

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    Flake8 is a wrapper around PyFlakes, pep8 and Ned Batchelder's McCabe script and displays the warnings in a per-file, merged output.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. P

    PEP 257

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    Python PEP 257 docstring style checker.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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