diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index cb54c8008..bcbf75a43 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ matrix:
       python: 3.8
     - env: TOXENV=flake8
       python: 3.8
+    - env: TOXENV=pylint
+      python: 3.8
     - env: TOXENV=docs
       python: 3.7  # Keep in sync with .readthedocs.yml
 
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 813417bae..8ab38a090 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-#
 # Scrapy documentation build configuration file, created by
 # sphinx-quickstart on Mon Nov 24 12:02:52 2008.
 #
diff --git a/docs/utils/linkfix.py b/docs/utils/linkfix.py
index 6290adbe2..9acfc3b23 100755
--- a/docs/utils/linkfix.py
+++ b/docs/utils/linkfix.py
@@ -14,50 +14,57 @@ Author: dufferzafar
 
 import re
 
-# Used for remembering the file (and its contents)
-# so we don't have to open the same file again.
-_filename = None
-_contents = None
 
-# A regex that matches standard linkcheck output lines
-line_re = re.compile(u'(.*)\:\d+\:\s\[(.*)\]\s(?:(.*)\sto\s(.*)|(.*))')
+def main():
 
-# Read lines from the linkcheck output file
-try:
-    with open("build/linkcheck/output.txt") as out:
-        output_lines = out.readlines()
-except IOError:
-    print("linkcheck output not found; please run linkcheck first.")
-    exit(1)
+    # Used for remembering the file (and its contents)
+    # so we don't have to open the same file again.
+    _filename = None
+    _contents = None
 
-# For every line, fix the respective file
-for line in output_lines:
-    match = re.match(line_re, line)
+    # A regex that matches standard linkcheck output lines
+    line_re = re.compile(u'(.*)\:\d+\:\s\[(.*)\]\s(?:(.*)\sto\s(.*)|(.*))')
 
-    if match:
-        newfilename = match.group(1)
-        errortype = match.group(2)
+    # Read lines from the linkcheck output file
+    try:
+        with open("build/linkcheck/output.txt") as out:
+            output_lines = out.readlines()
+    except IOError:
+        print("linkcheck output not found; please run linkcheck first.")
+        exit(1)
 
-        # Broken links can't be fixed and
-        # I am not sure what do with the local ones.
-        if errortype.lower() in ["broken", "local"]:
-            print("Not Fixed: " + line)
+    # For every line, fix the respective file
+    for line in output_lines:
+        match = re.match(line_re, line)
+
+        if match:
+            newfilename = match.group(1)
+            errortype = match.group(2)
+
+            # Broken links can't be fixed and
+            # I am not sure what do with the local ones.
+            if errortype.lower() in ["broken", "local"]:
+                print("Not Fixed: " + line)
+            else:
+                # If this is a new file
+                if newfilename != _filename:
+
+                    # Update the previous file
+                    if _filename:
+                        with open(_filename, "w") as _file:
+                            _file.write(_contents)
+
+                    _filename = newfilename
+
+                    # Read the new file to memory
+                    with open(_filename) as _file:
+                        _contents = _file.read()
+
+                _contents = _contents.replace(match.group(3), match.group(4))
         else:
-            # If this is a new file
-            if newfilename != _filename:
+            # We don't understand what the current line means!
+            print("Not Understood: " + line)
 
-                # Update the previous file
-                if _filename:
-                    with open(_filename, "w") as _file:
-                        _file.write(_contents)
 
-                _filename = newfilename
-
-                # Read the new file to memory
-                with open(_filename) as _file:
-                    _contents = _file.read()
-
-            _contents = _contents.replace(match.group(3), match.group(4))
-    else:
-        # We don't understand what the current line means!
-        print("Not Understood: " + line)
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
diff --git a/pylintrc b/pylintrc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..129c7bf7d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pylintrc
@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+[MASTER]
+persistent=no
+jobs=1  # >1 hides results
+
+[MESSAGES CONTROL]
+disable=abstract-method,
+        anomalous-backslash-in-string,
+        arguments-differ,
+        attribute-defined-outside-init,
+        bad-classmethod-argument,
+        bad-continuation,
+        bad-indentation,
+        bad-mcs-classmethod-argument,
+        bad-super-call,
+        bad-whitespace,
+        bare-except,
+        blacklisted-name,
+        broad-except,
+        c-extension-no-member,
+        catching-non-exception,
+        cell-var-from-loop,
+        comparison-with-callable,
+        consider-iterating-dictionary,
+        consider-using-in,
+        consider-using-set-comprehension,
+        consider-using-sys-exit,
+        cyclic-import,
+        dangerous-default-value,
+        deprecated-method,
+        deprecated-module,
+        duplicate-code,  # https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/214
+        eval-used,
+        expression-not-assigned,
+        fixme,
+        function-redefined,
+        global-statement,
+        import-error,
+        import-outside-toplevel,
+        import-self,
+        inconsistent-return-statements,
+        inherit-non-class,
+        invalid-name,
+        invalid-overridden-method,
+        isinstance-second-argument-not-valid-type,
+        keyword-arg-before-vararg,
+        line-too-long,
+        logging-format-interpolation,
+        logging-not-lazy,
+        lost-exception,
+        method-hidden,
+        misplaced-comparison-constant,
+        missing-docstring,
+        missing-final-newline,
+        multiple-imports,
+        multiple-statements,
+        no-else-continue,
+        no-else-raise,
+        no-else-return,
+        no-init,
+        no-member,
+        no-method-argument,
+        no-name-in-module,
+        no-self-argument,
+        no-self-use,
+        no-value-for-parameter,
+        not-an-iterable,
+        not-callable,
+        pointless-statement,
+        pointless-string-statement,
+        protected-access,
+        redefined-argument-from-local,
+        redefined-builtin,
+        redefined-outer-name,
+        reimported,
+        signature-differs,
+        singleton-comparison,
+        super-init-not-called,
+        superfluous-parens,
+        too-few-public-methods,
+        too-many-ancestors,
+        too-many-arguments,
+        too-many-branches,
+        too-many-format-args,
+        too-many-function-args,
+        too-many-instance-attributes,
+        too-many-lines,
+        too-many-locals,
+        too-many-public-methods,
+        too-many-return-statements,
+        trailing-newlines,
+        trailing-whitespace,
+        unbalanced-tuple-unpacking,
+        undefined-variable,
+        undefined-loop-variable,
+        unexpected-special-method-signature,
+        ungrouped-imports,
+        unidiomatic-typecheck,
+        unnecessary-comprehension,
+        unnecessary-lambda,
+        unnecessary-pass,
+        unreachable,
+        unsubscriptable-object,
+        unused-argument,
+        unused-import,
+        unused-variable,
+        unused-wildcard-import,
+        used-before-assignment,
+        useless-object-inheritance,  # Required for Python 2 support
+        useless-return,
+        useless-super-delegation,
+        wildcard-import,
+        wrong-import-order,
+        wrong-import-position
diff --git a/pytest.ini b/pytest.ini
index 44b0e070c..f9769467d 100644
--- a/pytest.ini
+++ b/pytest.ini
@@ -96,15 +96,15 @@ flake8-ignore =
     scrapy/loader/processors.py E501
     # scrapy/pipelines
     scrapy/pipelines/__init__.py E501
-    scrapy/pipelines/files.py E116 E501
+    scrapy/pipelines/files.py E501
     scrapy/pipelines/images.py E501
     scrapy/pipelines/media.py E501
     # scrapy/selector
     scrapy/selector/__init__.py F403
-    scrapy/selector/unified.py E501 E111
+    scrapy/selector/unified.py E501
     # scrapy/settings
     scrapy/settings/__init__.py E501
-    scrapy/settings/default_settings.py E501 E114 E116
+    scrapy/settings/default_settings.py E501
     scrapy/settings/deprecated.py E501
     # scrapy/spidermiddlewares
     scrapy/spidermiddlewares/httperror.py E501
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ flake8-ignore =
     tests/test_item.py E501 F841
     tests/test_link.py E501
     tests/test_linkextractors.py E501
-    tests/test_loader.py E501 E741 E117
+    tests/test_loader.py E501 E741
     tests/test_logformatter.py E501
     tests/test_mail.py E501
     tests/test_middleware.py E501
@@ -221,10 +221,10 @@ flake8-ignore =
     tests/test_selector.py E501
     tests/test_spider.py E501
     tests/test_spidermiddleware.py E501
-    tests/test_spidermiddleware_httperror.py E501 E121
-    tests/test_spidermiddleware_offsite.py E501 E111
+    tests/test_spidermiddleware_httperror.py E501
+    tests/test_spidermiddleware_offsite.py E501
     tests/test_spidermiddleware_output_chain.py E501
-    tests/test_spidermiddleware_referer.py E501 F841 E501 E121
+    tests/test_spidermiddleware_referer.py E501 F841 E501
     tests/test_squeues.py E501 E741
     tests/test_utils_asyncio.py E501
     tests/test_utils_conf.py E501
diff --git a/scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/ajaxcrawl.py b/scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/ajaxcrawl.py
index ad7a81e6b..4e12a5044 100644
--- a/scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/ajaxcrawl.py
+++ b/scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/ajaxcrawl.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 import re
 import logging
 
diff --git a/scrapy/linkextractors/lxmlhtml.py b/scrapy/linkextractors/lxmlhtml.py
index ceb37c5f1..1615d44d7 100644
--- a/scrapy/linkextractors/lxmlhtml.py
+++ b/scrapy/linkextractors/lxmlhtml.py
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 """
 Link extractor based on lxml.html
 """
+import operator
+from functools import partial
 from urllib.parse import urljoin
 
 import lxml.etree as etree
@@ -8,10 +10,10 @@ from w3lib.html import strip_html5_whitespace
 from w3lib.url import canonicalize_url, safe_url_string
 
 from scrapy.link import Link
+from scrapy.linkextractors import FilteringLinkExtractor
 from scrapy.utils.misc import arg_to_iter, rel_has_nofollow
 from scrapy.utils.python import unique as unique_list
 from scrapy.utils.response import get_base_url
-from scrapy.linkextractors import FilteringLinkExtractor
 
 
 # from lxml/src/lxml/html/__init__.py
@@ -27,19 +29,24 @@ def _nons(tag):
     return tag
 
 
+def _identity(x):
+    return x
+
+
+def _canonicalize_link_url(link):
+    return canonicalize_url(link.url, keep_fragments=True)
+
+
 class LxmlParserLinkExtractor:
-    def __init__(self, tag="a", attr="href", process=None, unique=False,
-                 strip=True, canonicalized=False):
-        self.scan_tag = tag if callable(tag) else lambda t: t == tag
-        self.scan_attr = attr if callable(attr) else lambda a: a == attr
-        self.process_attr = process if callable(process) else lambda v: v
+    def __init__(
+        self, tag="a", attr="href", process=None, unique=False, strip=True, canonicalized=False
+    ):
+        self.scan_tag = tag if callable(tag) else partial(operator.eq, tag)
+        self.scan_attr = attr if callable(attr) else partial(operator.eq, attr)
+        self.process_attr = process if callable(process) else _identity
         self.unique = unique
         self.strip = strip
-        if canonicalized:
-            self.link_key = lambda link: link.url
-        else:
-            self.link_key = lambda link: canonicalize_url(link.url,
-                                                          keep_fragments=True)
+        self.link_key = operator.attrgetter("url") if canonicalized else _canonicalize_link_url
 
     def _iter_links(self, document):
         for el in document.iter(etree.Element):
@@ -93,25 +100,44 @@ class LxmlParserLinkExtractor:
 
 class LxmlLinkExtractor(FilteringLinkExtractor):
 
-    def __init__(self, allow=(), deny=(), allow_domains=(), deny_domains=(), restrict_xpaths=(),
-                 tags=('a', 'area'), attrs=('href',), canonicalize=False,
-                 unique=True, process_value=None, deny_extensions=None, restrict_css=(),
-                 strip=True, restrict_text=None):
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        allow=(),
+        deny=(),
+        allow_domains=(),
+        deny_domains=(),
+        restrict_xpaths=(),
+        tags=('a', 'area'),
+        attrs=('href',),
+        canonicalize=False,
+        unique=True,
+        process_value=None,
+        deny_extensions=None,
+        restrict_css=(),
+        strip=True,
+        restrict_text=None,
+    ):
         tags, attrs = set(arg_to_iter(tags)), set(arg_to_iter(attrs))
         lx = LxmlParserLinkExtractor(
-            tag=lambda x: x in tags,
-            attr=lambda x: x in attrs,
+            tag=partial(operator.contains, tags),
+            attr=partial(operator.contains, attrs),
             unique=unique,
             process=process_value,
             strip=strip,
             canonicalized=canonicalize
         )
-
-        super(LxmlLinkExtractor, self).__init__(lx, allow=allow, deny=deny,
-                                                allow_domains=allow_domains, deny_domains=deny_domains,
-                                                restrict_xpaths=restrict_xpaths, restrict_css=restrict_css,
-                                                canonicalize=canonicalize, deny_extensions=deny_extensions,
-                                                restrict_text=restrict_text)
+        super(LxmlLinkExtractor, self).__init__(
+            link_extractor=lx,
+            allow=allow,
+            deny=deny,
+            allow_domains=allow_domains,
+            deny_domains=deny_domains,
+            restrict_xpaths=restrict_xpaths,
+            restrict_css=restrict_css,
+            canonicalize=canonicalize,
+            deny_extensions=deny_extensions,
+            restrict_text=restrict_text,
+        )
 
     def extract_links(self, response):
         """Returns a list of :class:`~scrapy.link.Link` objects from the
@@ -124,9 +150,11 @@ class LxmlLinkExtractor(FilteringLinkExtractor):
         """
         base_url = get_base_url(response)
         if self.restrict_xpaths:
-            docs = [subdoc
-                    for x in self.restrict_xpaths
-                    for subdoc in response.xpath(x)]
+            docs = [
+                subdoc
+                for x in self.restrict_xpaths
+                for subdoc in response.xpath(x)
+            ]
         else:
             docs = [response.selector]
         all_links = []
diff --git a/scrapy/pipelines/files.py b/scrapy/pipelines/files.py
index a9066986b..cd3e29057 100644
--- a/scrapy/pipelines/files.py
+++ b/scrapy/pipelines/files.py
@@ -83,8 +83,7 @@ class S3FilesStore:
     AWS_USE_SSL = None
     AWS_VERIFY = None
 
-    POLICY = 'private'  # Overriden from settings.FILES_STORE_S3_ACL in
-                        # FilesPipeline.from_settings.
+    POLICY = 'private'  # Overriden from settings.FILES_STORE_S3_ACL in FilesPipeline.from_settings
     HEADERS = {
         'Cache-Control': 'max-age=172800',
     }
diff --git a/scrapy/selector/unified.py b/scrapy/selector/unified.py
index a08955dc9..85a9bb526 100644
--- a/scrapy/selector/unified.py
+++ b/scrapy/selector/unified.py
@@ -65,9 +65,9 @@ class Selector(_ParselSelector, object_ref):
     selectorlist_cls = SelectorList
 
     def __init__(self, response=None, text=None, type=None, root=None, **kwargs):
-        if not(response is None or text is None):
-           raise ValueError('%s.__init__() received both response and text'
-                            % self.__class__.__name__)
+        if response is not None and text is not None:
+            raise ValueError('%s.__init__() received both response and text'
+                             % self.__class__.__name__)
 
         st = _st(response, type or self._default_type)
 
diff --git a/scrapy/spiderloader.py b/scrapy/spiderloader.py
index 63da55718..db4193430 100644
--- a/scrapy/spiderloader.py
+++ b/scrapy/spiderloader.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 import traceback
 import warnings
 from collections import defaultdict
diff --git a/scrapy/templates/project/module/items.py.tmpl b/scrapy/templates/project/module/items.py.tmpl
index a12d08414..88a18331c 100644
--- a/scrapy/templates/project/module/items.py.tmpl
+++ b/scrapy/templates/project/module/items.py.tmpl
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
 # Define here the models for your scraped items
 #
 # See documentation in:
diff --git a/scrapy/templates/project/module/middlewares.py.tmpl b/scrapy/templates/project/module/middlewares.py.tmpl
index b3e58ff94..6490f52a7 100644
--- a/scrapy/templates/project/module/middlewares.py.tmpl
+++ b/scrapy/templates/project/module/middlewares.py.tmpl
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
 # Define here the models for your spider middleware
 #
 # See documentation in:
diff --git a/scrapy/templates/project/module/pipelines.py.tmpl b/scrapy/templates/project/module/pipelines.py.tmpl
index 4876526a9..ce0edd335 100644
--- a/scrapy/templates/project/module/pipelines.py.tmpl
+++ b/scrapy/templates/project/module/pipelines.py.tmpl
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
 # Define your item pipelines here
 #
 # Don't forget to add your pipeline to the ITEM_PIPELINES setting
diff --git a/scrapy/templates/project/module/settings.py.tmpl b/scrapy/templates/project/module/settings.py.tmpl
index cb220eafc..a414b5fde 100644
--- a/scrapy/templates/project/module/settings.py.tmpl
+++ b/scrapy/templates/project/module/settings.py.tmpl
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
 # Scrapy settings for $project_name project
 #
 # For simplicity, this file contains only settings considered important or
diff --git a/scrapy/templates/spiders/basic.tmpl b/scrapy/templates/spiders/basic.tmpl
index 1cfe9cc9d..e9112bc95 100644
--- a/scrapy/templates/spiders/basic.tmpl
+++ b/scrapy/templates/spiders/basic.tmpl
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 import scrapy
 
 
diff --git a/scrapy/templates/spiders/crawl.tmpl b/scrapy/templates/spiders/crawl.tmpl
index 878425125..356496487 100644
--- a/scrapy/templates/spiders/crawl.tmpl
+++ b/scrapy/templates/spiders/crawl.tmpl
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 import scrapy
 from scrapy.linkextractors import LinkExtractor
 from scrapy.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule
diff --git a/scrapy/templates/spiders/csvfeed.tmpl b/scrapy/templates/spiders/csvfeed.tmpl
index c2e4bacfe..cbcbe9e2c 100644
--- a/scrapy/templates/spiders/csvfeed.tmpl
+++ b/scrapy/templates/spiders/csvfeed.tmpl
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 from scrapy.spiders import CSVFeedSpider
 
 
diff --git a/scrapy/templates/spiders/xmlfeed.tmpl b/scrapy/templates/spiders/xmlfeed.tmpl
index 863c9772f..5aa2aa8b0 100644
--- a/scrapy/templates/spiders/xmlfeed.tmpl
+++ b/scrapy/templates/spiders/xmlfeed.tmpl
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 from scrapy.spiders import XMLFeedSpider
 
 
diff --git a/scrapy/utils/log.py b/scrapy/utils/log.py
index 83c359bd4..5207690f4 100644
--- a/scrapy/utils/log.py
+++ b/scrapy/utils/log.py
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
 import logging
 import sys
 import warnings
diff --git a/scrapy/utils/ssl.py b/scrapy/utils/ssl.py
index 6e81b33ff..c3c5e329b 100644
--- a/scrapy/utils/ssl.py
+++ b/scrapy/utils/ssl.py
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
 import OpenSSL
 import OpenSSL._util as pyOpenSSLutil
 
diff --git a/tests/test_downloadermiddleware_redirect.py b/tests/test_downloadermiddleware_redirect.py
index 52c4d71a6..22f23d7b5 100644
--- a/tests/test_downloadermiddleware_redirect.py
+++ b/tests/test_downloadermiddleware_redirect.py
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
 import unittest
 
 from scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.redirect import RedirectMiddleware, MetaRefreshMiddleware
diff --git a/tests/test_downloadermiddleware_robotstxt.py b/tests/test_downloadermiddleware_robotstxt.py
index a1645ed96..b9452a0e7 100644
--- a/tests/test_downloadermiddleware_robotstxt.py
+++ b/tests/test_downloadermiddleware_robotstxt.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 from unittest import mock
 
 from twisted.internet import reactor, error
diff --git a/tests/test_http_response.py b/tests/test_http_response.py
index 04f58d305..357f4d727 100644
--- a/tests/test_http_response.py
+++ b/tests/test_http_response.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 import unittest
 
 from w3lib.encoding import resolve_encoding
diff --git a/tests/test_linkextractors.py b/tests/test_linkextractors.py
index 7e1b62b7f..2a2650480 100644
--- a/tests/test_linkextractors.py
+++ b/tests/test_linkextractors.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import pickle
 import re
 import unittest
 from warnings import catch_warnings
@@ -462,6 +463,10 @@ class Base:
                 Link(url='ftp://www.external.com/', text=u'An Item', fragment='', nofollow=False),
             ])
 
+        def test_pickle_extractor(self):
+            lx = self.extractor_cls()
+            self.assertIsInstance(pickle.loads(pickle.dumps(lx)), self.extractor_cls)
+
 
 class LxmlLinkExtractorTestCase(Base.LinkExtractorTestCase):
     extractor_cls = LxmlLinkExtractor
diff --git a/tests/test_pipeline_crawl.py b/tests/test_pipeline_crawl.py
index 188c5c3cf..6d15aaf31 100644
--- a/tests/test_pipeline_crawl.py
+++ b/tests/test_pipeline_crawl.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 import os
 import shutil
 
diff --git a/tests/test_responsetypes.py b/tests/test_responsetypes.py
index 8cdf7a176..9e63ac924 100644
--- a/tests/test_responsetypes.py
+++ b/tests/test_responsetypes.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 import unittest
 from scrapy.responsetypes import responsetypes
 
diff --git a/tests/test_spidermiddleware_httperror.py b/tests/test_spidermiddleware_httperror.py
index 714279ae0..e032b247c 100644
--- a/tests/test_spidermiddleware_httperror.py
+++ b/tests/test_spidermiddleware_httperror.py
@@ -21,10 +21,10 @@ class _HttpErrorSpider(MockServerSpider):
     def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
         super(_HttpErrorSpider, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
         self.start_urls = [
-           self.mockserver.url("/status?n=200"),
-           self.mockserver.url("/status?n=404"),
-           self.mockserver.url("/status?n=402"),
-           self.mockserver.url("/status?n=500"),
+            self.mockserver.url("/status?n=200"),
+            self.mockserver.url("/status?n=404"),
+            self.mockserver.url("/status?n=402"),
+            self.mockserver.url("/status?n=500"),
         ]
         self.failed = set()
         self.skipped = set()
diff --git a/tests/test_utils_deprecate.py b/tests/test_utils_deprecate.py
index b17e17f2f..adef66c1d 100644
--- a/tests/test_utils_deprecate.py
+++ b/tests/test_utils_deprecate.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 import inspect
 import unittest
 from unittest import mock
diff --git a/tests/test_utils_iterators.py b/tests/test_utils_iterators.py
index 3a58cc36b..824170d71 100644
--- a/tests/test_utils_iterators.py
+++ b/tests/test_utils_iterators.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 import os
 
 from twisted.trial import unittest
diff --git a/tests/test_utils_log.py b/tests/test_utils_log.py
index 21100aeb8..25cd904bc 100644
--- a/tests/test_utils_log.py
+++ b/tests/test_utils_log.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 import sys
 import logging
 import unittest
diff --git a/tests/test_utils_url.py b/tests/test_utils_url.py
index 1f8388957..16e7449c9 100644
--- a/tests/test_utils_url.py
+++ b/tests/test_utils_url.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 import unittest
 
 from scrapy.spiders import Spider
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 2102fc602..69b1bdfdd 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -37,6 +37,19 @@ deps =
     pytest-flake8
 commands =
     py.test --flake8 {posargs:docs scrapy tests}
+    
+[testenv:pylint]
+basepython = python3
+deps =
+    {[testenv]deps}
+    # Optional dependencies
+    boto
+    reppy
+    robotexclusionrulesparser
+    # Test dependencies
+    pylint
+commands =
+    pylint conftest.py docs extras scrapy setup.py tests
 
 [testenv:pypy3]
 basepython = pypy3