Is pylint safe to use?

pylint has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (4.0.5). DepScope rates its health at 80/100 (low risk).

What is the latest version of pylint?

The latest version of pylint is 4.0.5, released 2026-02-20.

Does pylint have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of pylint.

Is pylint deprecated?

No, pylint is actively maintained. Latest release: 4.0.5 (2026-02-20).

What are alternatives to pylint?

Popular alternatives to pylint in PyPI include: boto3, packaging, urllib3, idna, requests.

What license does pylint use?

pylint is licensed under GPL-2.0-or-later.

pylint

pypiv4.0.5

python code static checker

License GPL-2.0-or-later211 versions13 deps10,618,176 weekly dl

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 80/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

20/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

0/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.47medium

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (13)

astroid colorama dill dill dill isort mccabe platformdirs tomli tomlkit typing-extensions pyenchant~gitpython

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