Extracting Pylint Score

Question

Does anyone know how to extract only the pylint score for a repository?

So, assuming pylint produces the following output:

Global evaluation
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Your code has been rated at 6.67/10 (previous run: 6.67/10, +0.00)

I would like it to return a value of 6.67.

Thanks,

Seán

Answer 1

If you just want the score, why not grep do the heavy work?

(py3_venv) pylint script.py | grep rated
Your code has been rated at 2.65/10 (previous run: 7.65/10, +0.00)

Answer 2

You can run pylint programmatically and get to the stats dictionary of the underlying "linter":

from pylint.lint import Run

results = Run(['test.py'], do_exit=False)
# `exit` is deprecated, use `do_exit` instead
print(results.linter.stats['global_note'])