switch to Ruff linter

Author: OnnoKampman

.github/workflows/pylint.yml .github/workflows/ruff_linting.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: Pylint
+name: Ruff linting
 
 on: [push]
 
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-          pip install gpflow>=2.6.0 numpy pandas==1.5.3 pylint rpy2==3.4.5 scipy statsmodels
-      - name: Analysing the code with pylint
+          pip install gpflow>=2.6.0 numpy pandas==1.5.3 rpy2==3.4.5 ruff scipy statsmodels
+      - name: Analysing the code with Ruff
         run: |
-          pylint $(git ls-files '*.py') --disable=line-too-long,missing-class-docstring,missing-function-docstring,missing-module-docstring --fail-under=7
-        # continue-on-error: true
+          ruff check . --exit-zero
+        continue-on-error: true

ruff.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+# Exclude a variety of commonly ignored directories.
+exclude = [
+    ".bzr",
+    ".direnv",
+    ".eggs",
+    ".git",
+    ".git-rewrite",
+    ".hg",
+    ".ipynb_checkpoints",
+    ".mypy_cache",
+    ".nox",
+    ".pants.d",
+    ".pyenv",
+    ".pytest_cache",
+    ".pytype",
+    ".ruff_cache",
+    ".svn",
+    ".tox",
+    ".venv",
+    ".vscode",
+    "__pypackages__",
+    "_build",
+    "buck-out",
+    "build",
+    "dist",
+    "node_modules",
+    "site-packages",
+    "venv",
+]
+
+# Same as Black.
+line-length = 88
+indent-width = 4
+
+# Assume Python 3.10
+target-version = "py310"
+
+[lint]
+# Enable Pyflakes (`F`) and a subset of the pycodestyle (`E`)  codes by default.
+# Unlike Flake8, Ruff doesn't enable pycodestyle warnings (`W`) or
+# McCabe complexity (`C901`) by default.
+select = ["E4", "E7", "E9", "F"]
+ignore = []
+
+# Allow fix for all enabled rules (when `--fix`) is provided.
+fixable = ["ALL"]
+unfixable = []
+
+# Allow unused variables when underscore-prefixed.
+dummy-variable-rgx = "^(_+|(_+[a-zA-Z0-9_]*[a-zA-Z0-9]+?))$"
+
+[format]
+# Like Black, use double quotes for strings.
+quote-style = "double"
+
+# Like Black, indent with spaces, rather than tabs.
+indent-style = "space"
+
+# Like Black, respect magic trailing commas.
+skip-magic-trailing-comma = false
+
+# Like Black, automatically detect the appropriate line ending.
+line-ending = "auto"
+
+# Enable auto-formatting of code examples in docstrings. Markdown,
+# reStructuredText code/literal blocks and doctests are all supported.
+#
+# This is currently disabled by default, but it is planned for this
+# to be opt-out in the future.
+docstring-code-format = false
+
+# Set the line length limit used when formatting code snippets in
+# docstrings.
+#
+# This only has an effect when the `docstring-code-format` setting is
+# enabled.
+docstring-code-line-length = "dynamic"