dosisod/refurb

Health v2 · maintenance only

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2532 stars · 59 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Refurb is a command-line linter that suggests modern, idiomatic replacements for older or verbose Python code patterns. It uses type information to detect refactorings like replacing file-reading boilerplate with pathlib or redundant casts, and explains each check via error codes.

Use cases

• modernize legacy python codebase
• find verbose file reading patterns to replace with pathlib
• lint python code for redundant casts
• suggest idiomatic python replacements
• explain lint suggestions with examples
• enforce modern python idioms in ci

When to choose

• you want suggestions for modernizing old Python idioms beyond what flake8/ruff offer
• you want explanations for each lint rule with good/bad examples
• your codebase targets Python 3.7+ but you can run tools on 3.10+

When to avoid

• you need auto-fixing of lint errors rather than suggestions
• you need a linter for Python versions below 3.7
• you want a general-purpose linter covering style, imports, and complexity - use ruff or flake8 instead

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

linter cli developer-tools developer-tools cli python cross-platform code-modernization static-analysis mypy python-linter code-quality command-line python

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