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This makes me curious; wouldn't it be possible to write an automated linter or static code analyzer that would catch and automatically fix these issues?

In Node environment, I think that I would be able to come up with an ESLint plugin. Doesn't Python ecosystem have something similar?

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I think not because a think the bot cannot know is "why". An anti-pattern may be done for solid business reasons. It's Django Doctor's job to say "x could be y" and it's the dev's job to approve/reject the advice based on what the dev knows about the business and problems being solved.

> An anti-pattern may be done for solid business reasons.

This is why linters let you ignore lines/files.

on the roadmap is config file but for now devs can just ignore the advice :)

I mean this whole game is an ad for their linter.

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