Linting

courseflow is often run on sensitive student data; as such, we want to perform as many checks on our code ahead of time as we can to have confidence in its correctness. This includes running steps initially in debug mode, but also having support for static-time analysis of our code, which our linter performs. This includes:

• Formatting with Black

• Style checking with Flake8

• Type checking with Mypy

Flake8 extensions, as well as the --strict flag for Mypy, are used to robustly check our code. These can all be run using the top-level lint script.