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Pylint is a powerful command line tool used to check for errors in python code. Pylint tries to enforece the PEP8 style guide, and can also report back certain errors within the code and recommend edits to resolve them.

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pylint can be run on individual files, or entire directories containing several python files. Some example output of what pylint can do can be found below:
```bash
$ pylint simplecaesar.py
************* Module simplecaesar
simplecaesar.py:7:0: C0103: Constant name "shift" doesn't conform to UPPER_CASE naming style (invalid-name)
simplecaesar.py:11:0: C0103: Constant name "encoded" doesn't conform to UPPER_CASE naming style (invalid-name)
simplecaesar.py:15:12: C0103: Constant name "encoded" doesn't conform to UPPER_CASE naming style (invalid-name)

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Your code has been rated at 8.42/10 (previous run: 7.37/10, +1.05)
```

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