1.8.1

Add support for Python 3.11

1.8.0

File discovery fixes:

Finding paths and files to check has been replaced with a new version using pathlib - this should not result in any changes,
except fixing an issue where pylint and pydocstyle were inspecting the same file or directory twice sometimes.
However it may cause slightly different orders or reduce these duplicate warnings.

The behavior of prospector should be unchanged, apart from some bugfixes related to the old file discovery mechanism.

Related bugs and PRs:

• #480
• #417
• #199

Other bugfixes:

• #106
• Running prospector on a path not in the CWD (eg, 'prospector /some/where/else') will not cause exceptions, and will instead use absolute paths for message output
• Autodetction of libraries, to automatically use pylint plugins, will no work on projects using a pyproject.toml ; also it has been turned on by default, it seemed to have accidentally been set to off by default some time ago.
• #529

Misc:

• Prospector now runs on itself without generating errors after all linting warnings were fixed

1.8.0 rc1

Building on the rc0 release, with bugfixes to do with relative paths and absolute paths - prospector can now run in a directory and be pointed at any other directory.

Other small bugfixes for path related changes in rc0.

1.8.0 rc0

This is currently still a pre-release.

File discovery fixes

Finding paths and files to check has been replaced with a new version using pathlib - this should not result in any changes, except fixing an issue where pylint and pydocstyle were inspecting the same file or directory twice sometimes. However it may cause slightly different orders or reduce these duplicate warnings.

The behaviour of prospector should be unchanged, apart from some bugfixes related to the old file discovery mechanism.

Related bugs and PRs:

• #480
• #417
• #199

Other bugfixes

• #106

Misc

Prospector now runs on itself without generating errors after all linting warnings were fixed

1.7.7

Tiny bugfix relaese: restored __main__.py so that prospector could be run as a module, ie python -m prospector - #497

1.7.6

It's a bugs life.

Fixes:

• Fixed a problem where pylint was reporting the same message multiple times, because it was given a path to the file multiple times
• The blending fix mentioned in the 1.7.5 release was actually not checked in by accident, this is there now.

1.7.5

Just say no to bugs.

New:

• Profile inheritance is now optional - appending a profile name with a ? means that if it is not found, prospector will simply continue. Read the documentation here. Closes #161

Fixes:

• Stopped the ProfileValidator tool raising errors about pep8 and pep257 sections being unknown. Instead, they raise deprecated warnings.
• Blending works again - for example, pylint and pycodestyle errors representing the same thing are combined. After renaming pep8 to pycodestyle, this only worked when using legacy names.
• Unrecognised Mypy options now raise an exception instead of silently carrying on - #455

Tidyup:

• Lots of warnings fixed from running prospector on itself

1.7.4

Mea culpa release

Fix

The effort to allow pylint configuration in pyproject.toml to be used as an external config source (#485) had the unintended side effect where any project using poetry would now use that configuration and thus would ignore the pylint configuration in the profile. This was true even if the pyproject.toml had no pylint directives in it.

The behaviour has now been fixed where pylint will be configured using configuration from the profile first and then if any additional settings are found in a pylintrc or pyproject.toml or setup.cfg then these will override the profile configuration, instead of replacing it entirely.

This also has the benefit of fixing #227 .

1.7.3 [yanked from PyPI, see 1.7.4]

The war on bugs.

Fixes:

• Autodetect now does not die if a user does not have permissions (related to #271 and #487)
• Fixed that some pylint documentation warning messages were not correctly included in the list of documentation warnings to squash if doc warnings are not desired.
• Fixed the exit code for prospector - it was always 0 after the move to using poetry for packaging instead of 1 if errors were found (unless --zero-exit) was used. This now exits with the correct code based on the documented (and previous) behaviour.
• Fix that pep8 would overwrite instead of inherit from previous pycodestyle blocks, same with pep257 - #491
• Fix the pre-commit hook, as it could not run without being installed [with_everything], due to the "NotAvailableTool" class not properly implementing the abstract base class.
• Improved documentation about the pre-commit hook as well to clarify its use better - #484

Version 1.7.2 [yanked from PyPI, see 1.7.4]

More bugfixes!

Fixes:

• Fix that pep8 and pep257 sections were renamed but the old deprecated values were not properly used to configure pycodestyle and pydocstyle - #491
• Better handling for when the user running prospector is not able to read a file or directory - #271 and #487