Run Pylint for all Python files in a directory and all subdirectories

Question

I have

find . -iname \"*.py\" -exec pylint -E {} ;\\

and

FILES=$(find . -iname \"*.py\")
pylint -E $FILES

If

Answer 1

My one cent

find . -type f -name "*.py" | xargs pylint 

How does it work?

find finds all files ends with py and pass to xargs, xargs runs pylint command on each file.

NOTE: You can give any argument to pylint command as well.

EDIT:

According to doc we can use

1. pylint mymodule.py

2. pylint directory/mymodule.py

number 2 will work if directory is a python package (i.e. has an __init__.py file or it is an implicit namespace package) or if “directory” is in the python path.