Flag "print" statements in Python code

Question

I don't want "print" statements in our Python modules, because we will be using a logger.

I'm trying to generate a script to check modules with pylint. However, pylint currently does not detect this as a warning or error.

I want to detect "print" invocations as an error or a warning in accordance with our internal Python programming standard.

How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

flake8 has a flake8-print plugin specifically for the task:

flake8-print

Check for Print statements in python files.

DEMO:

$ cat test.py
s = "test"
print s

$ flake8 test.py
test.py:2:1: T001 print statement found.