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2020-12-10T19:21:40Z

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== pycodestyle ==

See [[Python/pycodestyle]]

pep8 has been renamed to pycodestyle (GitHub issue #466)
Use of the pep8 tool will be removed in a future release.
Please install and use `pycodestyle` instead.

== pep8 ==

Python Package Index : pep8 0.6.1 - http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pep8
:Python style guide checker
:pep8 is a tool to check your Python code against some of the style conventions in PEP 8.

PEP 8 -- Style Guide for Python Code - http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
:This document gives coding conventions for the Python code comprising the
standard library in the main Python distribution. Please see the
companion informational PEP describing style guidelines for the C code in
the C implementation of Python.

Apt Installation:
apt-get install pep8

pip install:
pip install pep8

Manual Installation:
mkdir -p ~/.src ; cd ~/.src
wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pep8/pep8-0.6.1.tar.gz#md5=49380cdf6ba2e222e8630cb0afe29d66 --no-check-certificate
tar -zvxf pep8-0.6.1.tar.gz
cd pep8-0.6.1
sudo python setup.py install # requires setuptools

NOTE: Make sure to fix the '#!/usr/bin/python' in /opt/python26/bin/pep8
Executable:
/opt/python26/bin/pep8

Fix python version used:
sudo sed -i 's%#!/usr/bin/python%#!/usr/bin/env python%' /opt/python26/bin/pep8

NOTE: modify first line:
#!/usr/bin/python
to
#!/usr/bin/env python

Example usage:
$ pep8 animal.py
animal.py:2:3: E111 indentation is not a multiple of four
animal.py:6:3: E301 expected 1 blank line, found 0
animal.py:139:80: E501 line too long (80 characters)

Options:
-r, --repeat show all occurrences of the same error
--show-source show source code for each error
--show-pep8 show text of PEP 8 for each error

Ignore long lines:
pep8 --ignore E501 animal.py

Alias:
alias pep8="pep8 --ignore E501"

Change max line length to 120:
sudo sed -i 's/MAX_LINE_LENGTH = 79/MAX_LINE_LENGTH = 119/g' /opt/python27/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pep8-0.6.1-py2.7.egg/pep8.py

# on other systems
sudo sed -i 's/MAX_LINE_LENGTH = 79/MAX_LINE_LENGTH = 119/g' usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pep8.py

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