Awesome Flake8 Extensions

A curated list of awesome flake8 extensions.

Inspired after reading a post.

Contents

• All-in-one
• Bugs
• Clean code
• Limitations
• Naming
• Complexity
• Comments
• Docstrings
• Tools
• Imports
• Testing
• Type annotations
• Library-specific checks
• Integrations
• Wrappers
• Formatters

All-in-one

Extensions with more than 20 rules inside.

• dlint - Tool for encouraging best coding practices and helping ensure Python code is secure.
• flake8-bugbear - Finding likely bugs and design problems in your program.
• flake8-pie - Extension that implements misc. lints.
• flake8-simplify - Plugin that helps you to simplify code.
• hacking - Set of flake8 plugins that test and enforce the OpenStack StyleGuide.
• wemake-python-styleguide - The strictest and most opinionated python linter ever.

Bugs

Extensions for finding possible bugs.

• flake8-2020 - Plugin which checks for misuse of sys.version or sys.version_info.
• flake8-alfred - Alfred is a flake8 plugin to warn on unsafe/obsolete symbols.
• flake8-async - A flake8 plugin that checks for bad async…