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by eric15342335 263 days ago
What about Pylint? iirc pylint has code duplication check as well. is it the same thing?
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Pylint's duplication check is text-based (compares lines), while pyscn uses tree edit distance on ASTs. This means pyscn can catch structural clones even when variable/function names differ.