Pylint vs Scrutinizer

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Scrutinizer vs Pylint: What are the differences?

Scrutinizer: Continuous inspection platform - improve code quality and find bugs before they hit production. Scrutinizer is a continuous inspection platform helping you to create better software; Pylint: Source-code, bug and quality checker for the Python programming language. It is a Python static code analysis tool which looks for programming errors, helps enforcing a coding standard, sniffs for code smells and offers simple refactoring suggestions.

Scrutinizer and Pylint can be categorized as "Code Review" tools.

Some of the features offered by Scrutinizer are:

  • Continuously measure and track your code quality
  • Project quality broken down
  • Know your problem areas

On the other hand, Pylint provides the following key features:

  • Syntax Check
  • Style Check
  • Warnings

Pylint is an open source tool with 2.28K GitHub stars and 493 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Pylint's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Scrutinizer has a broader approval, being mentioned in 23 company stacks & 41 developers stacks; compared to Pylint, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.

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Pros of Pylint
Pros of Scrutinizer
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    Command Line
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    Spell Check strings & comments
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    Code score & directions
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    Pre-commit checks
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    FOSS
  • 2
    Standards
  • 2
    IDE Integration
  • 1
    Check both committed & Uncommitted code
  • 1
    Hints to improve code
  • 7
    Github integration / sync
  • 4
    Bitbucket integration / sync
  • 2
    Gitlab integration / sync
  • 2
    Private Git repo sync
  • 1
    Python inspection
  • 1
    Easy setup
  • 1
    Code review features
  • 1
    Coverage Report changes
  • 1
    Free for open source

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Cons of Pylint
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      Pricing

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    What is Pylint?

    It is a Python static code analysis tool which looks for programming errors, helps enforcing a coding standard, sniffs for code smells and offers simple refactoring suggestions.

    What is Scrutinizer?

    Scrutinizer is a continuous inspection platform helping you to create better software.

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