pythonpylintthreshold

How to set a pylint score threshold?

I'd like to extract my pylint rating and set a threshold. Let me explain, for example, if the score is under 5, I want exit 1; And if my code is rated higher than 5, I want exit 0 and continue my Jenkins procedure.

Solution

  • Here's a way to access the pylint API it in Python. The following code should be saved to a file and executed with first argument to the script to be module/file to lint:

    import sys
from pylint import lint

THRESHOLD = 5

if len(sys.argv) < 2:
    raise ArgumentError("Module to evaluate needs to be the first argument")

run = lint.Run([sys.argv[1]], do_exit=False)
score = run.linter.stats['global_note']

if score < THRESHOLD:
    sys.exit(1)