pep8 0.3.1

Python style guide checker

pep8 - Python style guide checker

pep8 is a tool to check your Python code against some of the style conventions in PEP 8.

Features

• Plugin architecture: Adding new checks is easy.
• Parseable output: Jump to error location in your editor.
• Small: Just one Python file, requires only stdlib. You can use just the pep8.py file for this purpose
• Easy_installable, of course!

Installation

Just an easy_install pep8 ought to do the trick.

Example usage and output

$ pep8 optparse.py
optparse.py:69:11: E401 multiple imports on one line
optparse.py:77:1: E302 expected 2 blank lines, found 1
optparse.py:88:5: E301 expected 1 blank line, found 0
optparse.py:222:34: W602 deprecated form of raising exception
optparse.py:347:31: E211 whitespace before '('
optparse.py:357:17: E201 whitespace after '{'
optparse.py:472:29: E221 multiple spaces before operator
optparse.py:544:21: W601 .has_key() is deprecated, use 'in'

You can also make pep8.py show the source code for each error, and even the relevant text from PEP 8:

$ pep8 --show-source --show-pep8 testsuite/E111.py
testsuite/E111.py:2:3: E111 indentation is not a multiple of four
  print x
  ^
    Use 4 spaces per indentation level.

    For really old code that you don't want to mess up, you can
    continue to use 8-space tabs.

Or you can display how often each error was found:

$ pep8 --statistics -qq --filename=*.py Python-2.5/Lib
232     E201 whitespace after '['
599     E202 whitespace before ')'
631     E203 whitespace before ','
842     E211 whitespace before '('
2531    E221 multiple spaces before operator
4473    E301 expected 1 blank line, found 0
4006    E302 expected 2 blank lines, found 1
165     E303 too many blank lines (4)
325     E401 multiple imports on one line
3615    E501 line too long (82 characters)
612     W601 .has_key() is deprecated, use 'in'
1188    W602 deprecated form of raising exception

Quick help is available on the command line:

$ pep8 -h
usage: pep8 [options] input ...

options:
  -h, --help           show this help message and exit
  -v, --verbose        print status messages, or debug with -vv
  -q, --quiet          report only file names, or nothing with -qq
  --exclude=patterns   skip matches (default .svn,CVS,*.pyc,*.pyo)
  --filename=patterns  only check matching files (e.g. *.py)
  --ignore=errors      skip errors and warnings (e.g. E4,W)
  --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
  --statistics         count errors and warnings
  --benchmark          measure processing speed
  --testsuite=dir      run regression tests from dir
  --doctest            run doctest on myself

Feedback

Your feedback is more than welcome. Write email to [e-mail] or post bugs and feature requests here:

http://trac.browsershots.org/newticket?component=devtools

As this seems down at the moment, the alternative is:

http://github.com/cburroughs/pep8.py/issues

Source download

Officially, the file pep8.py (and a regression test suite) is available from the Browsershots subversion repository, under the Expat license:

http://svn.browsershots.org/trunk/devtools/pep8/

You can also look at the source code and change history online:

http://trac.browsershots.org/browser/trunk/devtools/pep8/pep8.py

Current alternative location. NOTE: the browsershots svn repository seems down, an accessible version is found on github. This also includes some extra fixes and a setup.py:

http://github.com/cburroughs/pep8.py/tree/master

Changelog

0.3.1 (2009-09-14)

• Fixes for comments: do not count them when checking for blank lines between items.
• Added setup.py for pypi upload and easy_installability.

0.2 (2007-10-16)

• Loads of fixes and improvements.

0.1 (2006-10-01)

• First release.

TODO

• script to verify testcases pass.
• testcase for ignoring ‘#’ before function change change.
• I have observed problems with decorators and 200 warnings, look into this.