how do you make changes to your Python code, then get feedback on which next action to take?
My fastest "inner loop" of feedback, besides Vscode, is a Linter.
Ruff is incredibly fast and does 80% of what I want -- that's my go-to for finding bugs for me to fix.
The next layer is pylint -E that is, scan code for a variable used before it's defined -- which is a guaranteed crash. This isn't as fast as Pyflakes or Ruff, but is super valuable.
Our friend Itamar at PythonSpeed.com has a great article on this, and a simple way to get started without boiling the ocean:
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