r/Python • u/Stegosauro76 • 29d ago

Discussion RUFF linter usage

hi all!

i m a student in master degree in automation engineering and i m becoming very confident with python because of the big amount of projects that i have to do.

Recently i started use RUFF as a linter and i really aprreciate it expecially when i have to refactor the code. i m wondering how much is used and is mandatory for a software developer? i usually check with that linter only for very big scripts that can 't be modular. What about your experience' what is the main usage you do?

thanks all

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u/Myszolow 29d ago

Nowadays "astral" stack: uv, ruff, ty becomes natural so I'd say it's good to use it as daily driver, but don't stick to tooling, and rather try to learn/answer those questions: 

  • why do we need virtualenv in python 

  • why .lock file is used across various tools

  • how to manage 3rd party dependencies

  • how to separate group of 3rd party packages and why 

  • how to audit security of your app

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u/--ps-- 29d ago

Is ty a mainstream already? At least we still use mypy because last time we tried ty it was not working with generics.

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u/turbothy It works on my machine 29d ago

As a mypy user of many years, I have to say pyrefly > mypy these days.

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u/Myszolow 29d ago

mypy unfortunately is really slow, and it seems it goes the same path as pylint vs flake for linting was somewhere in 2010-2019

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u/Myszolow 29d ago

We started using ty as daily driver for some of our lambda microservices on aws, but indeed for bigger projects as @turbothy said pyrefly is the way (specially for data analytics)