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by j88439h84 2523 days ago
In python, Pylint and mypy find real bugs all the time, plenty of false positives but still very usable.
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Pylint and mypy are about syntax and type-checking. While I agree these kind of tools work well, if think that by static analysis people usually imply something which goes farther than that. For example, the languages Facebook is citing (C++, Java, ...) already include type-checking in the compiler.
Pylint catches lots of semantic bugs, far from just syntax.