This is a simple extension for pylint that aims to check some common mistakes in django projects.

Contributions are welcome.

pip install django_linter

It can be used as a plugin or standalone script. To use it as a plugin it should be installed first, then run with pylint:

pylint --load-plugins=django_linter TARGET

To use it as a standalone script:

usage: django-linter [-h] TARGET [TARGET ...]

Simple extension for pylint to check django projects for common mistakes.

positional arguments:
  TARGET      python package or module

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

Settings:

• E5221 (required-setting-missed): Used when required setting missed in settings file.
• E5222 (empty-setting): Used when setting is empty value.
• W5221 (improper-settings-import): Used when settings is not imported from django.conf

Models:

• W5241 (nullable-text-field): Used when text field has null=True.
• W5242 (float-money-field): Used when money related field uses FloatField.
• W5243 (naive-datetime-used): Used when there is datetime.now is used.
• W5244 (related-field-named-with-id): Used when related field is named with _id suffix
• W5245 (unicode-method-absent): Used when model has no unicode method.
• W5246 (unicode-method-return): Used when unicode method does not return unicode.
• W5247 (model-field-redefinition): Used when there are more than one model field with the same name.
• W5248 (get-absolute-url-without-reverse): Used when get_absolute_url method is defined without using reverse function.

Forms:

• W5211 (form-field-redefinition): Used when there are more than one form field with the same name.

Views:

• W5231 (is-authenticated-not-called): Used when is_authenticated method is not called
• W5232 (objects-get-without-doesnotexist): Used when Model.objects.get is used without enclosing it in try-except block to catch DoesNotExist exception.
• W5233 (fetching-db-objects-len): Used when there is db query that fetches objects from database only to check the number of returned objects.
• W5234 (raw-get-post-access): Used when request.GET or request.POST dicts is accessed directly, it is better to use forms.

Layout:

• W5201 (forms-layout): Used when form class definition is not in forms module.
• W5202 (admin-layout): Used when admin class definition is not in admin module.

Misc:

• W5251 (print-used): Used when there is print statement or function

• "Meta" classes
• urlpatterns
• logger

Models

• "id" field
• "objects" manager
• "DoesNotExist" exception
• "MultipleObjectsReturned" exception

Testing

• test responses (django and DRF)

Factories

• factory-boy's factories (factory should return django model, but not always possible to infer model class)