https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint

closember code-quality hacktoberfest linter pep8 static-analysis static-code-analysis

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It's not just a linter that annoys you!

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint
Owner: pylint-dev
License: gpl-2.0
Created: 2015-12-09T05:40:02.000Z (over 10 years ago)
Default Branch: main
Last Pushed: 2026-03-10T21:11:27.000Z (17 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-14T09:57:14.169Z (13 days ago)
Topics: closember, code-quality, hacktoberfest, linter, pep8, static-analysis, static-code-analysis
Language: Python
Homepage: https://pylint.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Size: 40.1 MB
Stars: 5,658
Watchers: 74
Forks: 1,226
Open Issues: 1,067
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.rst
- Contributing: .github/CONTRIBUTING.md
- Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
- License: LICENSE
- Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
- Citation: CITATION.cff
- Codeowners: .github/CODEOWNERS
- Security: .github/SECURITY.md
Funding:
- Tidelift: pypi/pylint
- Github: cdce8p, DanielNoord, jacobtylerwalls, Pierre-Sassoulas

Owner metadata:

Name: pylint-dev
Login: pylint-dev
Email:
Kind: organization
Description: An organization that focuses on pylint and its ecosystem
Website:
Location:
Twitter:
Company:
Icon url: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/121692054?v=4
Repositories: 9
Last Synced at: 2026-03-23T15:23:49.079Z
Profile URL: https://github.com/pylint-dev

GitHub Events

Total

Create event: 149
Delete event: 150
Fork event: 100
Issue comment event: 1818
Issues event: 320
Pull request event: 637
Pull request review comment event: 461
Pull request review event: 861
Push event: 375
Release event: 8
Watch event: 303
Total: 5182

Last Year

Create event: 149
Delete event: 151
Fork event: 100
Issue comment event: 1822
Issues event: 327
Pull request event: 641
Pull request review comment event: 461
Pull request review event: 862
Push event: 377
Release event: 9
Watch event: 303
Total: 5202

Committers metadata

Last synced: 5 months ago

Total Commits: 9,328
Total Committers: 602
Avg Commits per committer: 15.495
Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.809

Commits in past year: 419
Committers in past year: 47
Avg Commits per committer in past year: 8.915
Development Distribution Score (DDS) in past year: 0.828

Name	Email	Commits
Claudiu Popa	p**e@g**m	1777
Pierre Sassoulas	p**s@g**m	1517
Daniël van Noord	1****d	708
Sylvain Thénault	s**t@l**r	595
Jacob Walls	j**s@g**m	490
dependabot[bot]	4****]	390
Marc Mueller	3****p	355
Emile Anclin	e**n@l**r	270
pre-commit-ci[bot]	6****]	197
Mark Byrne	3****2	142
hippo91	g**x@g**m	128
github-actions[bot]	4****]	122
Matus Valo	m****o	93
DudeNr33	3****3	91
Torsten Marek	s**e@g**m	88
Dani Alcala	1****a	83
Torsten Marek	t**k@g**m	66
Łukasz Rogalski	r**1@g**m	61
Nick Drozd	n**d@g**m	58
Ashley Whetter	a**y@a**k	53
Bryce Guinta	b**a@g**m	51
Michal Nowikowski	g**d@g**m	50
Julthep Nandakwang	j**p@n**m	50
yushao2	3****2	42
ssolanki	s**i@g**m	39
Harutaka Kawamura	h**0@g**m	37
Brett Cannon	b**t@p**g	36
Dmitry Pribysh	d**d@y**u	36
Laura Médioni	l**i@l**r	36
Bruno Daniel	b**l@b**m	34
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Issue and Pull Request metadata

Last synced: 5 months ago

Total issues: 1,235
Total pull requests: 1,640
Average time to close issues: 6 months
Average time to close pull requests: 28 days
Total issue authors: 823
Total pull request authors: 164
Average comments per issue: 3.56
Average comments per pull request: 3.36
Merged pull request: 1,250
Bot issues: 2
Bot pull requests: 568

Past year issues: 208
Past year pull requests: 600
Past year average time to close issues: 11 days
Past year average time to close pull requests: 4 days
Past year issue authors: 155
Past year pull request authors: 55
Past year average comments per issue: 1.26
Past year average comments per pull request: 2.62
Past year merged pull request: 446
Past year bot issues: 1
Past year bot pull requests: 223

More stats: https://issues.ecosyste.ms/repositories/lookup?url=https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint

Top Issue Authors

Pierre-Sassoulas (39)
jacobtylerwalls (35)
nickdrozd (20)
sam-s (17)
bersbersbers (14)
correctmost (12)
pylint-bot (12)
jamesbraza (11)
EugeneZelenko (9)
socketpair (8)
stdedos (7)
jolaf (7)
buhtz (7)
Julfried (7)
orSolocate (6)

Top Pull Request Authors

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jacobtylerwalls (233)
Pierre-Sassoulas (214)
pre-commit-ci[bot] (163)
github-actions[bot] (135)
cdce8p (108)
mbyrnepr2 (37)
nickdrozd (36)
zenlyj (28)
Julfried (28)
DanielNoord (19)
correctmost (15)
alexprabhat99 (12)
akamat10 (12)
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Top Issue Labels

Needs PR (340)
Needs triage :inbox_tray: (314)
False Positive 🦟 (213)
Bug :beetle: (164)
Enhancement ✨ (157)
Documentation :green_book: (76)
Help wanted 🙏 (71)
False Negative 🦋 (68)
Needs decision :lock: (67)
Crash 💥 (63)
Needs investigation 🔬 (59)
Duplicate 🐫 (50)
Good first issue (45)
pyreverse (40)
Needs astroid update (39)
Question (37)
Needs astroid Brain 🧠 (37)
Astroid (35)
Lib specific 💅 (32)
Needs specification :closed_lock_with_key: (30)
Control flow (30)
C: used-before-assignment (27)
Maintenance (26)
Proposal 📨 (24)
Won't fix/not planned (23)
typing (23)
python 3.12 (22)
Minor 💅 (20)
High priority (20)
Import system (19)

Top Pull Request Labels

Skip news :mute: (856)
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dependency (259)
Backported (150)
False Positive 🦟 (141)
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Bug :beetle: (72)
False Negative 🦋 (51)
Crash 💥 (51)
backport maintenance/3.3.x (42)
pyreverse (41)
backport maintenance/3.2.x (30)
Needs take over 🛎️ (28)
primer (25)
Work in progress (24)
python 3.12 (20)
C: used-before-assignment (19)
Needs decision :lock: (17)
Blocked 🚧 (16)
Waiting on author (16)
performance (15)
python 3.14 (11)
tests (9)
Regression (9)
Breaking changes for 4.0 🦤 (8)
typing (8)
python 3.13 (8)
Needs astroid update (7)
Needs review 🔍 (7)

Package metadata

Total packages: 6
Total downloads:
- pypi: 55,772,943 last-month
- homebrew: 977 last-month
Total docker downloads: 2,470,905,286
Total dependent packages: 3,364 (may contain duplicates)
Total dependent repositories: 118,058 (may contain duplicates)
Total versions: 412
Total maintainers: 11

pypi.org: pylint

python code static checker

Homepage:
Documentation: https://pylint.readthedocs.io/
Licenses: GPL-2.0-or-later
Latest release: 4.0.5 (published about 1 month ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-14T21:02:02.787Z (13 days ago)
Versions: 211
Dependent Packages: 3,360
Dependent Repositories: 117,361
Downloads: 55,772,836 Last month
Docker Downloads: 2,470,905,286
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.009%
- Dependent packages count: 0.009%
- Docker downloads count: 0.028%
- Downloads: 0.056%
- Average: 0.431%
- Stargazers count: 0.826%
- Forks count: 1.659%
Maintainers (9)

proxy.golang.org: github.com/pylint-dev/pylint

Homepage:
Documentation: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/pylint-dev/pylint#section-documentation
Licenses: gpl-2.0
Latest release: v4.0.5+incompatible (published about 1 month ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-14T00:02:22.293Z (14 days ago)
Versions: 93
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Forks count: 0.839%
- Stargazers count: 0.951%
- Average: 5.542%
- Dependent packages count: 9.576%
- Dependent repos count: 10.802%

anaconda.org: pylint

Pylint is a tool that checks for errors in Python code, tries to enforce a coding standard and looks for code smells.

Homepage: https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint
Licenses: GPL-2.0-or-later
Latest release: 4.0.4 (published about 2 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-04T13:47:59.855Z (23 days ago)
Versions: 37
Dependent Packages: 4
Dependent Repositories: 690
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 5.893%
- Average: 9.964%
- Dependent packages count: 11.118%
- Forks count: 11.148%
- Stargazers count: 11.695%

formulae.brew.sh: pylint

It's not just a linter that annoys you!

Homepage: https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint
Licenses: GPL-2.0-or-later
Latest release: 4.0.5 (published about 1 month ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-14T00:02:19.243Z (14 days ago)
Versions: 60
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 7
Downloads: 977 Last month
Rankings:
- Forks count: 2.516%
- Stargazers count: 5.681%
- Average: 11.818%
- Dependent repos count: 15.508%
- Downloads: 15.936%
- Dependent packages count: 19.447%

pypi.org: pylint-xonsh

python code static checker

Homepage:
Documentation: https://pylint-xonsh.readthedocs.io/
Licenses: GPL-2.0-or-later
Latest release: 4.0.9.dev0 (published 10 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-14T00:02:20.060Z (14 days ago)
Versions: 10
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Downloads: 93 Last month
Rankings:
- Stargazers count: 1.029%
- Forks count: 1.68%
- Dependent packages count: 9.019%
- Downloads: 11.77%
- Average: 14.862%
- Dependent repos count: 50.813%
Maintainers (1)
- torizon

pypi.org: pylint-pa

python code static checker, but passive-aggressive

Homepage:
Documentation: https://pylint-pa.readthedocs.io/
Licenses: GPL-2.0-or-later
Latest release: 3.0.0b1 (published over 2 years ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-14T00:02:21.239Z (14 days ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Downloads: 14 Last month
Rankings:
- Dependent packages count: 7.408%
- Average: 27.488%
- Dependent repos count: 47.567%
Maintainers (1)
- cooldudemcgeexl

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