Linting and static code analysis in general are important tools in software engineering. Making sure the code builds and works is all very well. But a consistent coding style minimises maintenance efforts and future development. In this episode I'll introduce several tools that can make your code analysis easier:

• pylint https://www.pylint.org
• flake8 https://flake8.pycqa.org/en/latest/index.html
• black https://black.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html
• pre-commit https://pre-commit.com
  • pre-commit hooks https://pre-commit.com/hooks.html

Other links you may find interesting and have been mentioned in the episode

• PEP8 https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/
• Google Python Style Guide https://google.github.io/styleguide/pyguide.html
• YAML file format https://yaml.org
• Stephen C. Johnson's paper on lint https://web.archive.org/web/20220123141016/https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.56.1841&rep=rep1&type=pdf
• Definition of spaghetti code (yes there is one) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_code

Byte-sized RSE is presented in collaboration with the UNIVERSE-HPC project.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/computational-methods/rse/events/byte-sized-rse/
ByteSized RSE link to Imperial College

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