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[ty] Better handling of "derived information" in constraint sets (#21463)
This saga began with a regression in how we handle constraint sets where
a typevar is constrained by another typevar, which #21068 first added
support for:

```py
def mutually_constrained[T, U]():
    # If [T = U ∧ U ≤ int], then [T ≤ int] must be true as well.
    given_int = ConstraintSet.range(U, T, U) & ConstraintSet.range(Never, U, int)
    static_assert(given_int.implies_subtype_of(T, int))
```

While working on #21414, I saw a regression in this test, which was
strange, since that PR has nothing to do with this logic! The issue is
that something in that PR made us instantiate the typevars `T` and `U`
in a different order, giving them differently ordered salsa IDs. And
importantly, we use these salsa IDs to define the variable ordering that
is used in our constraint set BDDs. This showed that our "mutually
constrained" logic only worked for one of the two possible orderings.
(We can — and now do — test this in a brute-force way by copy/pasting
the test with both typevar orderings.)

The underlying bug was in our `ConstraintSet::simplify_and_domain`
method. It would correctly detect `(U ≤ T ≤ U) ∧ (U ≤ int)`, because
those two constraints affect different typevars, and from that, infer `T
≤ int`. But it wouldn't detect the equivalent pattern in `(T ≤ U ≤ T) ∧
(U ≤ int)`, since those constraints affect the same typevar. At first I
tried adding that as yet more pattern-match logic in the ever-growing
`simplify_and_domain` method. But doing so caused other tests to start
failing.

At that point, I realized that `simplify_and_domain` had gotten to the
point where it was trying to do too much, and for conflicting consumers.
It was first written as part of our display logic, where the goal is to
remove redundant information from a BDD to make its string rendering
simpler. But we also started using it to add "derived facts" to a BDD. A
derived fact is a constraint that doesn't appear in the BDD directly,
but which we can still infer to be true. Our failing test relies on
derived facts — being able to infer that `T ≤ int` even though that
particular constraint doesn't appear in the original BDD. Before,
`simplify_and_domain` would trace through all of the constraints in a
BDD, figure out the full set of derived facts, and _add those derived
facts_ to the BDD structure. This is brittle, because those derived
facts are not universally true! In our example, `T ≤ int` only holds
along the BDD paths where both `T = U` and `U ≤ int`. Other paths will
test the negations of those constraints, and on those, we _shouldn't_
infer `T ≤ int`. In theory it's possible (and we were trying) to use BDD
operators to express that dependency...but that runs afoul of how we
were simultaneously trying to _remove_ information to make our displays
simpler.

So, I ripped off the band-aid. `simplify_and_domain` is now _only_ used
for display purposes. I have not touched it at all, except to remove
some logic that is definitely not used by our `Display` impl. Otherwise,
I did not want to touch that house of cards for now, since the display
logic is not load-bearing for any type inference logic.

For all non-display callers, we have a new **_sequent map_** data type,
which tracks exactly the same derived information. But it does so (a)
without trying to remove anything from the BDD, and (b) lazily, without
updating the BDD structure.

So the end result is that all of the tests (including the new
regressions) pass, via a more efficient (and hopefully better
structured/documented) implementation, at the cost of hanging onto a
pile of display-related tech debt that we'll want to clean up at some
point.
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.cargo Update Rust crate getrandom to v0.3.4 (#20977) 2025-10-20 07:00:08 +00:00
.config [ty] Respect notebook cell boundaries when adding an auto import (#21322) 2025-11-13 18:58:08 +01:00
.devcontainer Replace crates by dependi for VS Code Dev Container (#13125) 2024-08-28 09:53:27 +05:30
.github [ty] Better invalid-assignment diagnostics (#21476) 2025-11-18 14:31:04 +01:00
.vscode Exclude snapshots from vscode search results (#20457) 2025-09-18 21:10:42 -07:00
assets chore: add code style badge for ruff format (#7878) 2023-10-19 08:54:02 -05:00
changelogs Bump 0.14.0 (#20751) 2025-10-07 11:05:47 -07:00
crates [ty] Better handling of "derived information" in constraint sets (#21463) 2025-11-18 12:02:25 -05:00
docs Mention force-exclude in "Configuration > Python file discovery" (#21500) 2025-11-17 17:15:07 +01:00
fuzz Update salsa digest to a885bb4 (#21486) 2025-11-17 08:05:03 +01:00
playground [ty] Inlay hint call argument location (#20349) 2025-11-17 11:33:09 +01:00
python Fix default test executable in py-fuzzer (#21468) 2025-11-15 13:12:10 -05:00
scripts Bump 0.14.5 (#21435) 2025-11-13 14:37:31 -05:00
.editorconfig Move TOML indent size config (#20905) 2025-10-16 07:35:49 +00:00
.gitattributes Fix \r and \r\n handling in t- and f-string debug texts (#18673) 2025-06-15 06:53:06 +01:00
.gitignore [red-knot] Add --ignore, --warn, and --error CLI arguments (#15689) 2025-01-24 16:20:15 +01:00
.ignore github: include /.github/ in ripgrep searches by default 2025-03-17 12:37:57 -04:00
.markdownlint.yaml Update pre-commit dependencies (#18172) 2025-05-19 08:28:43 +02:00
.pre-commit-config.yaml chore: bump zizmor (#21064) 2025-10-24 10:58:23 -04:00
.prettierignore Migrate release workflow to cargo-dist (#9559) 2024-06-27 13:44:11 +02:00
_typos.toml Bump 0.13.3 (#20685) 2025-10-02 14:14:05 -05:00
BREAKING_CHANGES.md Bump 0.14.0 (#20751) 2025-10-07 11:05:47 -07:00
Cargo.lock Update salsa digest to a885bb4 (#21486) 2025-11-17 08:05:03 +01:00
Cargo.toml Update salsa digest to a885bb4 (#21486) 2025-11-17 08:05:03 +01:00
CHANGELOG.md Bump 0.14.5 (#21435) 2025-11-13 14:37:31 -05:00
clippy.toml [ty] Disallow std::env and io methods in most ty crates (#20046) 2025-08-22 11:13:47 -07:00
CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md Update code of conduct email address (#17875) 2025-05-05 21:34:45 -04:00
CONTRIBUTING.md Add a new "Opening a PR" section to the contribution guide (#21298) 2025-11-10 14:12:32 +00:00
dist-workspace.toml chore: bump dist, remove old commenting workflows (#21302) 2025-11-07 17:09:29 -05:00
Dockerfile ci(docker): incorporate docker release enhancements from uv (#13274) 2024-10-22 07:06:49 -05:00
LICENSE Split LICENSE addendum by derivation type (#20222) 2025-09-03 21:35:33 -04:00
mkdocs.insiders.yml Watch for changes to the generated file during documentation serve (#14476) 2024-11-20 04:51:20 +00:00
mkdocs.public.yml Watch for changes to the generated file during documentation serve (#14476) 2024-11-20 04:51:20 +00:00
mkdocs.template.yml Fix rendering of admonition in docs (#18163) 2025-05-20 08:22:06 +02:00
pyproject.toml Bump 0.14.5 (#21435) 2025-11-13 14:37:31 -05:00
README.md Bump 0.14.5 (#21435) 2025-11-13 14:37:31 -05:00
ruff.schema.json analyze: Add option to skip over imports in TYPE_CHECKING blocks (#21472) 2025-11-16 12:30:24 +00:00
rust-toolchain.toml Update Rust toolchain to 1.91 (#21179) 2025-11-01 01:50:58 +00:00
rustfmt.toml Add rustfmt.toml file (#18197) 2025-05-19 11:40:58 -04:00
SECURITY.md Add SECURITY.md (#16224) 2025-02-18 08:42:55 -06:00
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Ruff

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An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust.

Shows a bar chart with benchmark results.

Linting the CPython codebase from scratch.

  • 10-100x faster than existing linters (like Flake8) and formatters (like Black)
  • 🐍 Installable via pip
  • 🛠️ pyproject.toml support
  • 🤝 Python 3.14 compatibility
  • ⚖️ Drop-in parity with Flake8, isort, and Black
  • 📦 Built-in caching, to avoid re-analyzing unchanged files
  • 🔧 Fix support, for automatic error correction (e.g., automatically remove unused imports)
  • 📏 Over 800 built-in rules, with native re-implementations of popular Flake8 plugins, like flake8-bugbear
  • ⌨️ First-party editor integrations for VS Code and more
  • 🌎 Monorepo-friendly, with hierarchical and cascading configuration

Ruff aims to be orders of magnitude faster than alternative tools while integrating more functionality behind a single, common interface.

Ruff can be used to replace Flake8 (plus dozens of plugins), Black, isort, pydocstyle, pyupgrade, autoflake, and more, all while executing tens or hundreds of times faster than any individual tool.

Ruff is extremely actively developed and used in major open-source projects like:

...and many more.

Ruff is backed by Astral. Read the launch post, or the original project announcement.

Testimonials

Sebastián Ramírez, creator of FastAPI:

Ruff is so fast that sometimes I add an intentional bug in the code just to confirm it's actually running and checking the code.

Nick Schrock, founder of Elementl, co-creator of GraphQL:

Why is Ruff a gamechanger? Primarily because it is nearly 1000x faster. Literally. Not a typo. On our largest module (dagster itself, 250k LOC) pylint takes about 2.5 minutes, parallelized across 4 cores on my M1. Running ruff against our entire codebase takes .4 seconds.

Bryan Van de Ven, co-creator of Bokeh, original author of Conda:

Ruff is ~150-200x faster than flake8 on my machine, scanning the whole repo takes ~0.2s instead of ~20s. This is an enormous quality of life improvement for local dev. It's fast enough that I added it as an actual commit hook, which is terrific.

Timothy Crosley, creator of isort:

Just switched my first project to Ruff. Only one downside so far: it's so fast I couldn't believe it was working till I intentionally introduced some errors.

Tim Abbott, lead developer of Zulip (also here):

This is just ridiculously fast... ruff is amazing.

Table of Contents

For more, see the documentation.

  1. Getting Started
  2. Configuration
  3. Rules
  4. Contributing
  5. Support
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Who's Using Ruff?
  8. License

Getting Started

For more, see the documentation.

Installation

Ruff is available as ruff on PyPI.

Invoke Ruff directly with uvx:

uvx ruff check   # Lint all files in the current directory.
uvx ruff format  # Format all files in the current directory.

Or install Ruff with uv (recommended), pip, or pipx:

# With uv.
uv tool install ruff@latest  # Install Ruff globally.
uv add --dev ruff            # Or add Ruff to your project.

# With pip.
pip install ruff

# With pipx.
pipx install ruff

Starting with version 0.5.0, Ruff can be installed with our standalone installers:

# On macOS and Linux.
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/ruff/install.sh | sh

# On Windows.
powershell -c "irm https://astral.sh/ruff/install.ps1 | iex"

# For a specific version.
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/ruff/0.14.5/install.sh | sh
powershell -c "irm https://astral.sh/ruff/0.14.5/install.ps1 | iex"

You can also install Ruff via Homebrew, Conda, and with a variety of other package managers.

Usage

To run Ruff as a linter, try any of the following:

ruff check                          # Lint all files in the current directory (and any subdirectories).
ruff check path/to/code/            # Lint all files in `/path/to/code` (and any subdirectories).
ruff check path/to/code/*.py        # Lint all `.py` files in `/path/to/code`.
ruff check path/to/code/to/file.py  # Lint `file.py`.
ruff check @arguments.txt           # Lint using an input file, treating its contents as newline-delimited command-line arguments.

Or, to run Ruff as a formatter:

ruff format                          # Format all files in the current directory (and any subdirectories).
ruff format path/to/code/            # Format all files in `/path/to/code` (and any subdirectories).
ruff format path/to/code/*.py        # Format all `.py` files in `/path/to/code`.
ruff format path/to/code/to/file.py  # Format `file.py`.
ruff format @arguments.txt           # Format using an input file, treating its contents as newline-delimited command-line arguments.

Ruff can also be used as a pre-commit hook via ruff-pre-commit:

- repo: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit
  # Ruff version.
  rev: v0.14.5
  hooks:
    # Run the linter.
    - id: ruff-check
      args: [ --fix ]
    # Run the formatter.
    - id: ruff-format

Ruff can also be used as a VS Code extension or with various other editors.

Ruff can also be used as a GitHub Action via ruff-action:

name: Ruff
on: [ push, pull_request ]
jobs:
  ruff:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: astral-sh/ruff-action@v3

Configuration

Ruff can be configured through a pyproject.toml, ruff.toml, or .ruff.toml file (see: Configuration, or Settings for a complete list of all configuration options).

If left unspecified, Ruff's default configuration is equivalent to the following ruff.toml file:

# Exclude a variety of commonly ignored directories.
exclude = [
    ".bzr",
    ".direnv",
    ".eggs",
    ".git",
    ".git-rewrite",
    ".hg",
    ".ipynb_checkpoints",
    ".mypy_cache",
    ".nox",
    ".pants.d",
    ".pyenv",
    ".pytest_cache",
    ".pytype",
    ".ruff_cache",
    ".svn",
    ".tox",
    ".venv",
    ".vscode",
    "__pypackages__",
    "_build",
    "buck-out",
    "build",
    "dist",
    "node_modules",
    "site-packages",
    "venv",
]

# Same as Black.
line-length = 88
indent-width = 4

# Assume Python 3.9
target-version = "py39"

[lint]
# Enable Pyflakes (`F`) and a subset of the pycodestyle (`E`) codes by default.
select = ["E4", "E7", "E9", "F"]
ignore = []

# Allow fix for all enabled rules (when `--fix`) is provided.
fixable = ["ALL"]
unfixable = []

# Allow unused variables when underscore-prefixed.
dummy-variable-rgx = "^(_+|(_+[a-zA-Z0-9_]*[a-zA-Z0-9]+?))$"

[format]
# Like Black, use double quotes for strings.
quote-style = "double"

# Like Black, indent with spaces, rather than tabs.
indent-style = "space"

# Like Black, respect magic trailing commas.
skip-magic-trailing-comma = false

# Like Black, automatically detect the appropriate line ending.
line-ending = "auto"

Note that, in a pyproject.toml, each section header should be prefixed with tool.ruff. For example, [lint] should be replaced with [tool.ruff.lint].

Some configuration options can be provided via dedicated command-line arguments, such as those related to rule enablement and disablement, file discovery, and logging level:

ruff check --select F401 --select F403 --quiet

The remaining configuration options can be provided through a catch-all --config argument:

ruff check --config "lint.per-file-ignores = {'some_file.py' = ['F841']}"

To opt in to the latest lint rules, formatter style changes, interface updates, and more, enable preview mode by setting preview = true in your configuration file or passing --preview on the command line. Preview mode enables a collection of unstable features that may change prior to stabilization.

See ruff help for more on Ruff's top-level commands, or ruff help check and ruff help format for more on the linting and formatting commands, respectively.

Rules

Ruff supports over 800 lint rules, many of which are inspired by popular tools like Flake8, isort, pyupgrade, and others. Regardless of the rule's origin, Ruff re-implements every rule in Rust as a first-party feature.

By default, Ruff enables Flake8's F rules, along with a subset of the E rules, omitting any stylistic rules that overlap with the use of a formatter, like ruff format or Black.

If you're just getting started with Ruff, the default rule set is a great place to start: it catches a wide variety of common errors (like unused imports) with zero configuration.

Beyond the defaults, Ruff re-implements some of the most popular Flake8 plugins and related code quality tools, including:

For a complete enumeration of the supported rules, see Rules.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome and highly appreciated. To get started, check out the contributing guidelines.

You can also join us on Discord.

Support

Having trouble? Check out the existing issues on GitHub, or feel free to open a new one.

You can also ask for help on Discord.

Acknowledgements

Ruff's linter draws on both the APIs and implementation details of many other tools in the Python ecosystem, especially Flake8, Pyflakes, pycodestyle, pydocstyle, pyupgrade, and isort.

In some cases, Ruff includes a "direct" Rust port of the corresponding tool. We're grateful to the maintainers of these tools for their work, and for all the value they've provided to the Python community.

Ruff's formatter is built on a fork of Rome's rome_formatter, and again draws on both API and implementation details from Rome, Prettier, and Black.

Ruff's import resolver is based on the import resolution algorithm from Pyright.

Ruff is also influenced by a number of tools outside the Python ecosystem, like Clippy and ESLint.

Ruff is the beneficiary of a large number of contributors.

Ruff is released under the MIT license.

Who's Using Ruff?

Ruff is used by a number of major open-source projects and companies, including:

Show Your Support

If you're using Ruff, consider adding the Ruff badge to your project's README.md:

[![Ruff](https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/astral-sh/ruff/main/assets/badge/v2.json)](https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff)

...or README.rst:

.. image:: https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/astral-sh/ruff/main/assets/badge/v2.json
    :target: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff
    :alt: Ruff

...or, as HTML:

<a href="https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff"><img src="https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/astral-sh/ruff/main/assets/badge/v2.json" alt="Ruff" style="max-width:100%;"></a>

License

This repository is licensed under the MIT License