rust-python-linter

A performance-focused, Pyflakes-inspired Python linter, written in Rust.

Features:

• Python 3.9 compatibility
• ESLint-inspired cache semantics
• TypeScript-inspired --watch semantics
• pyproject.toml support

Installation

Available as rust-python-linter on PyPI:

pip install rust-python-linter

Usage

To run the linter, try any of the following:

rust_python_linter path/to/code/to/check.py
# ...or...
rust_python_linter path/to/code/
# ...or...
rust_python_linter path/to/code/*.py

You can also run in --watch mode to automatically re-run the linter on-change with, e.g.:

rust_python_linter path/to/code/ --watch

Development

As the name suggests, rust-python-linter is implemented in Rust:

cargo fmt
cargo clippy
cargo run resources/test/src

Deployment

rust-python-linter is released for Python using maturin:

maturin publish --skip-existing --target x86_64-apple-darwin
maturin publish --skip-existing --target aarch64-apple-darwin

Benchmarking

First, clone CPython. It's a large and diverse Python codebase, which makes it a good target for benchmarking. Note that we clone v3.9, as RustPython doesn't yet support pattern matching, which was introduced in v3.10.

git clone --branch 3.9 https://github.com/python/cpython.git resources/test/cpython

Add this pyproject.toml to the directory:

[tool.linter]
line-length = 88
exclude = [
    "Lib/ctypes/test/test_numbers.py",
    "Lib/dataclasses.py",
    "Lib/lib2to3/tests/data/bom.py",
    "Lib/lib2to3/tests/data/crlf.py",
    "Lib/lib2to3/tests/data/different_encoding.py",
    "Lib/lib2to3/tests/data/false_encoding.py",
    "Lib/lib2to3/tests/data/py2_test_grammar.py",
    "Lib/sqlite3/test/factory.py",
    "Lib/sqlite3/test/hooks.py",
    "Lib/sqlite3/test/regression.py",
    "Lib/sqlite3/test/transactions.py",
    "Lib/sqlite3/test/types.py",
    "Lib/test/bad_coding2.py",
    "Lib/test/badsyntax_3131.py",
    "Lib/test/badsyntax_pep3120.py",
    "Lib/test/encoded_modules/module_iso_8859_1.py",
    "Lib/test/encoded_modules/module_koi8_r.py",
    "Lib/test/sortperf.py",
    "Lib/test/test_email/torture_test.py",
    "Lib/test/test_fstring.py",
    "Lib/test/test_genericpath.py",
    "Lib/test/test_getopt.py",
    "Lib/test/test_htmlparser.py",
    "Lib/test/test_importlib/stubs.py",
    "Lib/test/test_importlib/test_files.py",
    "Lib/test/test_importlib/test_metadata_api.py",
    "Lib/test/test_importlib/test_open.py",
    "Lib/test/test_importlib/test_util.py",
    "Lib/test/test_named_expressions.py",
    "Lib/test/test_peg_generator/__main__.py",
    "Lib/test/test_pipes.py",
    "Lib/test/test_source_encoding.py",
    "Lib/test/test_weakref.py",
    "Lib/test/test_webbrowser.py",
    "Lib/tkinter/__main__.py",
    "Lib/tkinter/test/test_tkinter/test_variables.py",
    "Modules/_decimal/libmpdec/literature/fnt.py",
    "Modules/_decimal/tests/deccheck.py",
    "Tools/i18n/pygettext.py",
    "Tools/test2to3/maintest.py",
    "Tools/test2to3/setup.py",
    "Tools/test2to3/test/test_foo.py",
    "Tools/test2to3/test2to3/hello.py",
]

Next, to benchmark the release build:

cargo build --release

hyperfine --warmup 5 \
  "./target/release/rust_python_linter ./resources/test/cpython/ --no-cache" \
  "./target/release/rust_python_linter ./resources/test/cpython/"

Benchmark 1: ./target/release/rust_python_linter ./resources/test/cpython/ --no-cache
  Time (mean ± σ):     353.6 ms ±   7.6 ms    [User: 2868.8 ms, System: 171.5 ms]
  Range (min … max):   344.4 ms … 367.3 ms    10 runs

Benchmark 2: ./target/release/rust_python_linter ./resources/test/cpython/
  Time (mean ± σ):      59.6 ms ±   2.5 ms    [User: 36.4 ms, System: 345.6 ms]
  Range (min … max):    55.9 ms …  67.0 ms    48 runs