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dpapadopoulos
dpapadopoulos

Reputation: 1846

Q: How can I store/save the results of Pylint execution?

I am using Pylint, I am new to this tool, so to count the quality of my python project (test automation). I know that if I want to test the quality of one file I have to execute the following command (for Windows10):

pylint name_of_file.py

If I want to execute the whole directory, I need to create a python file named __init__.py in the above directory and then to execute this command: 

pylint name_of_the_directory

Also, as I mentioned above, I also use PyCharm. Through the interface of this IDE, Pylint has a button named as Check Project which is validating the whole project. Please take a look on the screenshot of this interface:

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An output from any of the above executions, would be like this:

something.py:12:4: C0111: Missing method docstring (missing-docstring)
something.py:16:4: C0111: Missing method docstring (missing-docstring)
something.py:20:4: C0111: Missing method docstring (missing-docstring)
something.py:25:4: C0111: Missing method docstring (missing-docstring)
something.py:31:4: C0111: Missing method docstring (missing-docstring)
something.py:35:4: C0111: Missing method docstring (missing-docstring)
something.py:39:4: C0111: Missing method docstring (missing-docstring)

What do I need: I want every after new build, the Pylint results to be saved in a specific directory under a .txt format file, having as a name the current timestamp followed by the current's project version (stored into a property file). To me (if I am not wrong), it's like keeping the log output fo Pylint execution. How can this happen?

In case is needed:

System information

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2106

Answers (1)

user2201041
user2201041

Reputation:

Working in the Windows command line, you can redirect output to the filename you need, and then display the contents of the file you just wrote.

pylint name_of_directory > <filename> 2>&1 | type <filename>

You can use slices of the %DATE% and %TIME% variables to get a unique filename with the timestamp.

>echo %DATE%
Thu 02/21/2019
>echo %DATE:~0,1%
T
>echo %DATE:~1,2%
hu
>echo %TIME%
 7:54:17.74

You'll have to figure out what parts you want and slice/append them into your desired name. Just trying to concatenate %DATE% and %TIME% will give you an invalid pathname. This question discussses formatting a filename with a timestamp.

Once you have the timestamp format you want, you can save your filename to a a variable to reference it just once:

set FILENAME="example.txt"; pylint <name_of_directory> > %FILENAME% 2>&1 | type %FILENAME%

Of course, this will just save it for the current command. See this question if you want to save it globally.

I assume there's a way to get PyCharm to run this command for you, but I cannot tell you how to do that.

Upvotes: 2

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