style: migrate to ruff

[SauravMaheshkar]

astral-sh/ruff has emerged as a competitor to the existing linters. It's considerably faster than the current linter pylint viz.

Source: ruff repository

Switching to ruff would enable us to switch to a single tool, as it has drop-in parity with black, isort and support for pylint rules.

Happy to open a PR if interested 😄

References:

• How does ruff compare to pylint? astral-sh/ruff#689

[philippmwirth]

Great idea, we already use ruff internally. We'd welcome a PR.

[TakshPanchal]

I would like to contribute.

[SauravMaheshkar]

@TakshPanchal sounds good, LMK if you need any help with the PR

[TakshPanchal]

Currently, isort and black is being used right? So I have to pylintrc as reference config. From docs,

Ruff can be configured through a pyproject.toml, ruff.toml, or .ruff.toml file.

So majorly I have to convert pylintrc with one of these file right?

[SauravMaheshkar]

Currently, isort and black is being used right? So I have to pylintrc as reference config. From docs,

Ruff can be configured through a pyproject.toml, ruff.toml, or .ruff.toml file.

So majorly I have to convert pylintrc with one of these file right?

Yes, and let's stick with one single configuration file, so convert pylintrc to a ruff configuration within pyproject.toml.

Ideally the changes lead to no style changes, i.e. running make lint with ruff leads to no changes in code files.

[Abhrajitdas02]

can I work on this issue?

[SauravMaheshkar]

Sure, we only assign one issue at a time. So, I'll assign this issue for now. If you want to work on some other issue first, let me know.

[SauravMaheshkar]

@Abhrajitdas02 would you like any help with this issue?

[SauravMaheshkar]

@guarin I was working on this and noticed that we actually don't enforce pylint anywhere.

Source: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Alightly-ai%2Flightly%20pylint&type=code