---
name: "pylama"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "pylama"
version: "8.4.1-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/pylama"
---

# pylama(1)

code audit tool for Python

## NAME

pylama - code audit tool for Python

## SYNOPSYS

**pylama** \[*-h*\] \[*--verbose*\] \[*--version*\] \[*--format {pep8, pylint}*\] \[*--select SELECT*\] \[*--sort SORT*\] \[*--linters LINTERS*\] \[*--ignore IGNORE*\] \[*--skip SKIP*\] \[*--report REPORT*\] \[*--hook*\] \[*--async*\] \[*--options OPTIONS*\] \[*--force*\] \[*--abspath*\] \[*paths* \[*paths ...*\]\]

## OPTIONS

- **-h**, **--help**

  show the help message and exit

- **-v**, **--verbose**

  verbose mode

- **--version**

  show program’s version number and exit

**-f {pep8, pylint}**, **--format {pep8, pylint}**

Choose errors format (pep8, pylint).

- **-s SELECT**, **--select SELECT**

  Select errors and warnings. (comma-separated list)

- **--sort SORT**

  Sort result by error types. Ex. E, W, D

- **-l LINTERS**, **--linters LINTERS**

  Select linters. (comma-separated). Choices are pyflakes, pep8, pep257, mccabe.

- **-i IGNORE**, **--ignore IGNORE**

  Ignore errors and warnings. (comma-separated)

- **--skip SKIP**

  Skip files by masks (comma-separated, Ex. **\*/messages.py**)

- **-r REPORT**, **--report REPORT**

  Send report to file \[REPORT\]

- **--hook**

  Install Git (Mercurial) hook.

- **--async**

  Enable async mode. Useful for checking a lot of files. Unsupported with pylint.

- **-o FILE**, **--options FILE**

  Specify configuration file. Looks for pylama.ini, setup.cfg, tox.ini, or pytest.ini in the current directory.

- **-F**, **--force**

  Force code checking (if linter doesn’t allow)

- **-a**, **--abspath**

  Use absolute paths in output.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by ChangZhuo Chen *\<czchen@debian.org\>* for the **Debian GNU/Linux system** (but may be used by others).