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Enforce Newspaper Style with Flake

Motivation

Good code reads like a newspaper. Start with the highest abstraction, go to the details. This also enables to read the code without an editor.

Quoting Robert C. Martin from his Clean Code book.

“Think of a well-written newspaper article. You read it vertically. At the top, you expect a headline that will tell you what the story is about and allows you to decided whether it is something you want to read. The first paragraph gives you a synopsis of the whole story, hiding all the details while giving you the broad-brush concepts. As you continue downward, the details increase until you have all the dates, names, quotes, claims, and other minutiae. We would like a source file to be like a newspaper article.”

In Python newspaper code should look like this.

def headline():
    text()

def text():  # this needs to be defined after the usage.
    ...

There hasn't been an automatic way in python to check for this. So here it is.

Usage

# install the flake8 extension for newspaper style
pip3 install flake8-newspaper-style==1.2.3
# then check your code
flake8 --select=NEWS src  # here it restricts flake8 to newspaper style issues

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