invoking pylint programmatically

Question

I\'d like to invoke the pylint checker, limited to the Error signalling part, as part of my unit testing. so I checked the pylint executable script, got to the pylint

Answer 1

Take a look at the pylint/epylint.py which contains two different ways to start pylint programatically.

You can also simply call :

from pylint.lint import Run
Run(['--errors-only', 'myfile.py']) 

for instance.