A highly opinionated flake8 plugin for Trio-related problems.

This can include anything from outright bugs, to pointless/dead code, to likely performance issues, to minor points of idiom that might signal a misunderstanding.

It may well be too noisy for anyone with different opinions, that's OK.

It also supports the anyio library.

Pairs well with flake8-bugbear.

pip install flake8-trio

• TRIO100: A with trio.fail_after(...): or with trio.move_on_after(...): context does not contain any await statements. This makes it pointless, as the timeout can only be triggered by a checkpoint.
• TRIO101: yield inside a nursery or cancel scope is only safe when implementing a context manager - otherwise, it breaks exception handling.
• TRIO102: It's unsafe to await inside finally: or except BaseException/trio.Cancelled unless you use a shielded cancel scope with a timeout.
• TRIO103: except BaseException, except trio.Cancelled or a bare except: with a code path that doesn't re-raise. If you don't want to re-raise BaseException, add a separate handler for trio.Cancelled before.
• TRIO104: Cancelled and BaseException must be re-raised - when a user tries to return or raise a different exception.
• TRIO105: Calling a trio async function without immediately awaiting it.
• TRIO106: trio must be imported with import trio for the linter to work.
• TRIO107: Renamed to TRIO910
• TRIO108: Renamed to TRIO911
• TRIO109: Async function definition with a timeout parameter - use trio.[fail/move_on]_[after/at] instead
• TRIO110: while <condition>: await trio.sleep() should be replaced by a trio.Event.
• TRIO111: Variable, from context manager opened inside nursery, passed to start[_soon] might be invalidly accessed while in use, due to context manager closing before the nursery. This is usually a bug, and nurseries should generally be the inner-most context manager.
• TRIO112: Nursery body with only a call to nursery.start[_soon] and not passing itself as a parameter can be replaced with a regular function call.
• TRIO113: Using nursery.start_soon in __aenter__ doesn't wait for the task to begin. Consider replacing with nursery.start.
• TRIO114: Startable function (i.e. has a task_status keyword parameter) not in --startable-in-context-manager parameter list, please add it so TRIO113 can catch errors when using it.
• TRIO115: Replace trio.sleep(0) with the more suggestive trio.lowlevel.checkpoint().
• TRIO116: trio.sleep() with >24 hour interval should usually be trio.sleep_forever().
• TRIO117: Don't raise or catch trio.[NonBase]MultiError, prefer [exceptiongroup.]BaseExceptionGroup. Even if Trio still raises MultiError for legacy code, it can be caught with BaseExceptionGroup so it's fully redundant.
• TRIO118: Don't assign the value of anyio.get_cancelled_exc_class() to a variable, since that breaks linter checks and multi-backend programs.

• TRIO200: User-configured error for blocking sync calls in async functions. Does nothing by default, see trio200-blocking-calls for how to configure it.
• TRIO210: Sync HTTP call in async function, use httpx.AsyncClient.
• TRIO211: Likely sync HTTP call in async function, use httpx.AsyncClient. Looks for urllib3 method calls on pool objects, but only matching on the method signature and not the object.
• TRIO212: Blocking sync HTTP call on httpx object, use httpx.AsyncClient.
• TRIO220: Sync process call in async function, use await nursery.start(trio.run_process, ...).
• TRIO221: Sync process call in async function, use await trio.run_process(...).
• TRIO222: Sync os.* call in async function, wrap in await trio.to_thread.run_sync().
• TRIO230: Sync IO call in async function, use trio.open_file(...).
• TRIO231: Sync IO call in async function, use trio.wrap_file(...).
• TRIO232: Blocking sync call on file object, wrap the file object in trio.wrap_file() to get an async file object.
• TRIO240: Avoid using os.path in async functions, prefer using trio.Path objects.

• TRIO900: Async generator without @asynccontextmanager not allowed.
• TRIO910: Exit or return from async function with no guaranteed checkpoint or exception since function definition.
• TRIO911: Exit, yield or return from async iterable with no guaranteed checkpoint since possible function entry (yield or function definition) Checkpoints are await, async for, and async with (on one of enter/exit).

pip install flake8 flake8-trio
flake8 .

If you use pre-commit, you can use it with flake8-trio by adding the following to your .pre-commit-config.yaml:

minimum_pre_commit_version: '2.9.0'
repos:
- repo: https://github.com/Zac-HD/flake8-trio
  rev: 23.2.5
  hooks:
    - id: flake8-trio
      # args: [--enable=TRIO, --disable=TRIO9, --autofix=TRIO]

This is often considerably faster for large projects, because pre-commit can avoid running flake8-trio on unchanged files.

Afterwards, run

pip install pre-commit flake8-trio
pre-commit run .

If inside a git repository, running without arguments will run it against all *.py files in the repository.

pip install flake8-trio
flake8-trio

flake8-trio --autofix=TRIO

flake8-trio my_python_file.py

flake8-trio **/*.py

You can configure flake8 with command-line options, but we prefer using a config file. The file needs to start with a section marker [flake8] and the following options are then parsed using flake8's config parser, and can be used just like any other flake8 options. Note that it's not currently possible to use a configuration file when running flake8-trio standalone.

Comma-separated list of error codes to enable, similar to flake8 --select but is additionally more performant as it will disable non-enabled visitors from running instead of just silencing their errors.

Comma-separated list of error codes to disable, similar to flake8 --ignore but is additionally more performant as it will disable non-enabled visitors from running instead of just silencing their errors.

Comma-separated list of error-codes to enable autofixing for if implemented. Requires running as a standalone program. Pass --autofix=TRIO to enable all autofixes.

Whether to also print an error message for autofixed errors.

Change the default library to be anyio instead of trio. If trio is imported it will assume both are available and print suggestions with [anyio|trio].

Comma-separated list of decorators to disable checkpointing checks for, turning off TRIO910 and TRIO911 warnings for functions decorated with any decorator matching any in the list. Matching is done with fnmatch. Defaults to disabling for asynccontextmanager.

Decorators-to-match must be identifiers or dotted names only (not PEP-614 expressions), and will match against the name only - e.g. foo.bar matches foo.bar, foo.bar(), and foo.bar(args, here), etc.

For example:

no-checkpoint-warning-decorators =
  mydecorator,
  mydecoratorpackage.checkpointing_decorators.*,
  ign*,
  *.ignore,

Comma-separated list of methods which should be used with .start() when opening a context manager, in addition to the default trio.run_process, trio.serve_tcp, trio.serve_ssl_over_tcp, and trio.serve_listeners. Names must be valid identifiers as per str.isidentifier(). For example:

startable-in-context-manager =
  myfun,
  myfun2,

Comma-separated list of pairs of values separated by -> (optional whitespace stripped), where the first is a pattern for a call that should raise an error if found inside an async function, and the second is what should be suggested to use instead. It uses fnmatch as per no-checkpoint-warning-decorators for matching. The part after -> is not used by the checker other than when printing the error, so you could add extra info there if you want.

The format of the error message is User-configured blocking sync call {0} in async function, consider replacing with {1}., where {0} is the pattern the call matches and {1} is the suggested replacement.

Example:

trio200-blocking-calls =
  my_blocking_call -> async.alternative,
  module.block_call -> other_function_to_use,
  common_error_call -> alternative(). But sometimes you should use other_function(). Ask joe if you're unsure which one,
  dangerous_module.* -> corresponding function in safe_module,
  *.dangerous_call -> .safe_call()

Specified patterns must not have parentheses, and will only match when the pattern is the name of a call, so given the above configuration

async def my_function():
    my_blocking_call()  # this would raise an error
    x = my_blocking_call(a, b, c)  # as would this
    y = my_blocking_call  # but not this
    y()  # or this
    [my_blocking_call][0]()  # nor this

    def my_blocking_call():  # it's also safe to use the name in other contexts
        ...

    arbitrary_other_function(my_blocking_call=None)