gregorynicholas · July 20, 2012 17:53 · Jul 20, 2012
diff --git a/pylint-recursive.py b/pylint-recursive.py
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+#! /usr/bin/env python
+'''
+Module that runs pylint on all python scripts found in a directory tree..
+'''
+
+import os
+import re
+import sys
+
+total = 0.0
+count = 0
+
+def check(module):
+  '''
+  apply pylint to the file specified if it is a *.py file
+  '''
+  global total, count
+
+  if module[-3:] == ".py":
+
+    print "CHECKING ", module
+    pout = os.popen('pylint %s'% module, 'r')
+    for line in pout:
+      if  re.match("E....:.", line):
+        print line
+      if "Your code has been rated at" in line:
+        print line
+        score = re.findall("\d.\d\d", line)[0]
+        total += float(score)
+        count += 1
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+  try:
+    print sys.argv   
+    BASE_DIRECTORY = sys.argv[1]
+  except IndexError:
+    print "no directory specified, defaulting to current working directory"
+    BASE_DIRECTORY = os.getcwd()
+
+  print "looking for *.py scripts in subdirectories of ", BASE_DIRECTORY 
+  for root, dirs, files in os.walk(BASE_DIRECTORY):
+    for name in files:
+      filepath = os.path.join(root, name)
+      check(filepath)
+
+  print "==" * 50
+  print "%d modules found"% count
+  print "AVERAGE SCORE = %.02f"% (total / count)