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Asked: 2026-06-02T00:26:05+00:00

There are tools like pyflakes and pep8.py, which tell you if the code you

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There are tools like pyflakes and pep8.py, which tell you if the code you have written meets certain standards. I want to build a similar tool which does static analysis on Django and tells things when they dont meet standards. (Eg models should have a __unicode__.)
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  • Is it worth doing this? (Are there enough common things which an be tested for?)
  • Is there a good starting point? (Eg some app I can contribute to instead of starting my own.)
  • How do I proceed? (Eg. is using ast module a good idea for this?)
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  1. Editorial Team

    There are two open source projects that I know of which do this type of analysis speficially for Django:

    • django-lint which is a wrapper/extension to PyLint
    • djangolint which is a Django Dash project which appears to have it’s own set of analyizers

    Either one should provide a solid starting point for what you are looking to do.

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