third_party.pylibs.pylint.src/doc/output.rst
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Pylint output
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The default format for the output is raw text. You can change this by passing
pylint the ``--output-format=<value>`` option. Possible values are: parseable,
colorized, msvs (visual studio) and html.
There are several sections in pylint's output.
Source code analysis section
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For each python module, Pylint will first display a few '*' characters followed
by the name of the module. Then, a number of messages with the following format:
::
MESSAGE_TYPE: LINE_NUM:[OBJECT:] MESSAGE
You can get another output format, useful since it's recognized by
most editors or other development tools using the ``--output-format=parseable``
option.
The message type can be:
* [R]efactor for a "good practice" metric violation
* [C]onvention for coding standard violation
* [W]arning for stylistic problems, or minor programming issues
* [E]rror for important programming issues (i.e. most probably bug)
* [F]atal for errors which prevented further processing
Sometimes the line of code which caused the error is displayed with
a caret pointing to the error. This may be generalized in future
versions of Pylint.
Example (extracted from a run of Pylint on itself...):
::
************* Module pylint.checkers.format
W: 50: Too long line (86/80)
W:108: Operator not followed by a space
print >>sys.stderr, 'Unable to match %r', line
^
W:141: Too long line (81/80)
W: 74:searchall: Unreachable code
W:171:FormatChecker.process_tokens: Redefining built-in (type)
W:150:FormatChecker.process_tokens: Too many local variables (20/15)
W:150:FormatChecker.process_tokens: Too many branches (13/12)
Reports section
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Following the analysis message, Pylint will display a set of reports,
each one focusing on a particular aspect of the project, such as number
of messages by categories, modules dependencies...
For instance, the metrics report displays summaries gathered from the
current run.
* the number of processed modules
* for each module, the percentage of errors and warnings
* the total number of errors and warnings
* percentage of classes, functions and modules with docstrings, and
a comparison from the previous run
* percentage of classes, functions and modules with correct name
(according to the coding standard), and a comparison from the
previous run
* a list of external dependencies found in the code, and where they appear
Also, a global evaluation for the code is computed.