No, whereas pylint promotes a good style, same space between function definitions, etc. this is something that is heavily missing in perl. Python also doesn't have (or actually it's almost never used) global variables and goto and all that crap that people still use in perl code. On of the first things i do when having to work on others perl code is to run Critic and first fix the myriad of warnings that come up. With Pylint it's typically just some minor stuff. With Critic it's typically some major stuff that's plainly wrong.