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Python style guide checker
Last release 9 years ago
no release in 18 months
Ships unpredictably
gaps range from 8 days to 1.8 years
Nearly every release is documented
notes for 35 of 37 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
17 years old
37 releases · first in 2009
Prominently note via warning message that the tool is no longer released as pep8 and will only be fixed in the pycodestyle package
Changes:
pep8 and will only be fixed in the pycodestyle packageRepository moved to PyCQA Organization on GitHub: https://github.com/pycqa/pep8
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Bugs:
One column per quarter.
Added check for breaking around a binary operator. (Issue #197, Pull #305)
Changes:
Bugs:
Assign variables before referenced. (Issue #287)
Changes:
Bugs:
local_dir variable. (Issue #377)Ian Lee joined the project as a maintainer.
News:
Changes:
Report E731 for lambda assignment. (Issue #277)
Report E704 for one-liner def instead of E701. Do not report this error in the default configuration. (Issue #277)
Replace codes E111, E112 and E113 with codes E114, E115 and E116 for bad indentation of comments. (Issue #274)
Report E266 instead of E265 when the block comment starts with
multiple #. (Issue #270)
Report E402 for import statements not at the top of the file. (Issue #264)
Do not enforce whitespaces around ** operator. (Issue #292)
Strip whitespace from around paths during normalization. (Issue #339 / #343)
Update --format documentation. (Issue #198 / Pull Request #310)
Add .tox/ to default excludes. (Issue #335)
Do not report E121 or E126 in the default configuration. (Issues #256 / #316)
Allow spaces around the equals sign in an annotated function. (Issue #357)
Allow trailing backslash if in an inline comment. (Issue #374)
If --config is used, only that configuration is processed. Otherwise,
merge the user and local configurations are merged. (Issue #368 / #369)
Bug fixes:
Don't crash if Checker.build_tokens_line() returns None. (Issue #306)
Don't crash if os.path.expanduser() throws an ImportError. (Issue #297)
Missing space around keyword parameter equal not always reported, E251. (Issue #323)
Fix false positive E711/E712/E713. (Issues #330 and #336)
Do not skip physical checks if the newline is escaped. (Issue #319)
Flush sys.stdout to avoid race conditions with printing. See flake8 bug: https://gitlab.com/pycqa/flake8/issues/17 for more details. (Issue #363)
Skip the traceback on "Broken pipe" signal. (Issue #275)
Bug fixes:
Skip the traceback on "Broken pipe" signal. (Issue #275)
Do not exit when an option in setup.cfg or tox.ini
is not recognized.
Check the last line even if it does not end with a newline. (Issue #286)
Always open files in universal newlines mode in Python 2. (Issue #288)
Check the last line even if it has no end-of-line. (Issue #273)
Bug fixes:
Fix regression with E22 checks and inline comments. (Issue #271)
Bug fixes:
Fix negative offset with E303 before a multi-line docstring. (Issue #269)
Bug fixes:
Fix wrong offset computation when error is on the last char of a physical line. (Issue #268)
Bug fixes:
Distribute a universal wheel file.
Changes:
Bug fixes:
Report correct line number for E303 with comments. (Issue #60)
Do not allow newline after parameter equal. (Issue #252)
Fix line number reported for multi-line strings. (Issue #220)
Fix false positive E121/E126 with multi-line strings. (Issue #265)
Fix E501 not detected in comments with Python 2.5.
Fix caret position with --show-source when line contains tabs.
Fix a crash with E125 on multi-line strings. (Issue #263)
Bug fixes:
Nothing published for this version
Honor # noqa for errors E711 and E712. (Issue #180)
Changes:
Honor # noqa for errors E711 and E712. (Issue #180)
When both a tox.ini and a setup.cfg are present in the project
directory, merge their contents. The tox.ini file takes
precedence (same as before). (Issue #182)
Give priority to --select over --ignore. (Issue #188)
Compare full path when excluding a file. (Issue #186)
New option --hang-closing to switch to the alternative style of
closing bracket indentation for hanging indent. Add error E133 for
closing bracket which is missing indentation. (Issue #103)
Accept both styles of closing bracket indentation for hanging indent. Do not report error E123 in the default configuration. (Issue #103)
Bug fixes:
Do not crash when running AST checks and the document contains null bytes. (Issue #184)
Correctly report other E12 errors when E123 is ignored. (Issue #103)
Fix false positive E261/E262 when the file contains a BOM. (Issue #193)
Fix E701, E702 and E703 not detected sometimes. (Issue #196)
Fix E122 not detected in some cases. (Issue #201 and #208)
Fix false positive E121 with multiple brackets. (Issue #203)
When no path is specified, do not try to read from stdin. The feature was added in 1.4.3, but it is not supported on Windows. Use - filename argument
When no path is specified, do not try to read from stdin. The feature
was added in 1.4.3, but it is not supported on Windows. Use -
filename argument to read from stdin. This usage is supported
since 1.3.4. (Issue #170)
Do not require setuptools in setup.py. It works around an issue
with pip and Python 3. (Issue #172)
Add __pycache__ to the ignore list.
Change misleading message for E251. (Issue #171)
Do not report false E302 when the source file has a coding cookie or a comment on the first line. (Issue #174)
Reorganize the tests and add tests for the API and for the command line usage and options. (Issues #161 and #162)
Ignore all checks which are not explicitly selected when select is
passed to the StyleGuide constructor.
Report E227 or E228 instead of E225 for whitespace around bitwise, shift or modulo operators. (Issue #166)
Report E227 or E228 instead of E225 for whitespace around bitwise, shift or modulo operators. (Issue #166)
Change the message for E226 to make clear that it is about arithmetic operators.
Fix a false positive E128 for continuation line indentation with tabs.
Fix regression with the --diff option. (Issue #169)
Fix the TestReport class to print the unexpected warnings and
errors.
Hide the --doctest and --testsuite options when installed.
Hide the --doctest and --testsuite options when installed.
Fix crash with AST checkers when the syntax is invalid. (Issue #160)
Read from standard input if no path is specified.
Initiate a graceful shutdown on Control+C.
Allow changing the checker_class for the StyleGuide.
Support AST checkers provided by third-party applications.
Support AST checkers provided by third-party applications.
Register new checkers with register_check(func_or_cls, codes).
Allow constructing a StyleGuide with a custom parser.
Accept visual indentation without parenthesis after the if
statement. (Issue #151)
Fix UnboundLocalError when using # noqa with continued lines.
(Issue #158)
Re-order the lines for the StandardReport.
Expand tabs when checking E12 continuation lines. (Issue #155)
Refactor the testing class TestReport and the specific test
functions into a separate test module.
Allow sphinx.ext.autodoc syntax for comments. (Issue #110)
Allow sphinx.ext.autodoc syntax for comments. (Issue #110)
Report E703 instead of E702 for the trailing semicolon. (Issue #117)
Honor # noqa in addition to # nopep8. (Issue #149)
Expose the OptionParser factory for better extensibility.
Report E226 instead of E225 for optional whitespace around common operators (*, , /, + and -). This new error code is ignored in the default configura
Report E226 instead of E225 for optional whitespace around common
operators (*, **, /, + and -). This new error
code is ignored in the default configuration because PEP 8 recommends
to "use your own judgement". (Issue #96)
Lines with a # nopep8 at the end will not issue errors on line
length E501 or continuation line indentation E12*. (Issue #27)
Fix AssertionError when the source file contains an invalid line
ending "\r\r\n". (Issue #119)
Read the [pep8] section of tox.ini or setup.cfg if present.
(Issue #93 and #141)
Add the Sphinx-based documentation, and publish it on https://pycodestyle.readthedocs.io/. (Issue #105)
Fix false positive E124 and E128 with comments. (Issue #100)
Fix false positive E124 and E128 with comments. (Issue #100)
Fix error on stdin when running with bpython. (Issue #101)
Fix false positive E401. (Issue #104)
Report E231 for nested dictionary in list. (Issue #142)
Catch E271 at the beginning of the line. (Issue #133)
Fix false positive E126 for multi-line comments. (Issue #138)
Fix false positive E221 when operator is preceded by a comma. (Issue #135)
Fix --diff failing on one-line hunk. (Issue #137)
Fix the --exclude switch for directory paths. (Issue #111)
Use - filename to read from standard input. (Issue #128)
Fix regression with continuation line checker. (Issue #98)
Revert to the previous behaviour for --show-pep8: do not imply --first. (Issue #89)
Revert to the previous behaviour for --show-pep8:
do not imply --first. (Issue #89)
Add E902 for IO errors. (Issue #87)
Fix false positive for E121, and missed E124. (Issue #92)
Set a sensible default path for config file on Windows. (Issue #95)
Allow verbose in the configuration file. (Issue #91)
Show the enforced max-line-length in the error message. (Issue #86)
Explain which configuration options are expected. Accept and recommend the options names with hyphen instead of underscore. (Issue #82)
Explain which configuration options are expected. Accept and recommend the options names with hyphen instead of underscore. (Issue #82)
Do not read the user configuration when used as a module
(except if config_file=True is passed to the StyleGuide constructor).
Fix wrong or missing cases for the E12 series.
Fix cases where E122 was missed. (Issue #81)
.. warning:: The internal API is backwards incompatible.
Warning
The internal API is backwards incompatible.
Remove global configuration and refactor the library around a StyleGuide class; add the ability to configure various reporters. (Issue #35 and #66)
Read user configuration from ~/.config/pep8 and local configuration from ./.pep8. (Issue #22)
Fix E502 for backslash embedded in multi-line string. (Issue #68)
Fix E225 for Python 3 iterable unpacking (PEP 3132). (Issue #72)
Enable the new checkers from the E12 series in the default configuration.
Suggest less error-prone alternatives for E712 errors.
Rewrite checkers to run faster (E22, E251, E27).
Fixed a crash when parsed code is invalid (too many closing brackets).
Fix E127 and E128 for continuation line indentation. (Issue #74)
New option --format to customize the error format. (Issue #23)
New option --diff to check only modified code. The unified diff is read from STDIN. Example: hg diff | pep8 --diff (Issue #39)
Correctly report the count of failures and set the exit code to 1 when the --doctest or the --testsuite fails.
Correctly detect the encoding in Python 3. (Issue #69)
Drop support for Python 2.3, 2.4 and 3.0. (Issue #78)
Add E121 through E128 for continuation line indentation. These checks are disabled by default. If you want to force all checks, use switch --select=E,
Add E121 through E128 for continuation line indentation. These
checks are disabled by default. If you want to force all checks,
use switch --select=E,W. Patch by Sam Vilain. (Issue #64)
Add E721 for direct type comparisons. (Issue #47)
Add E711 and E712 for comparisons to singletons. (Issue #46)
Fix spurious E225 and E701 for function annotations. (Issue #29)
Add E502 for explicit line join between brackets.
Fix E901 when printing source with --show-source.
Report all errors for each checker, instead of reporting only the first occurrence for each line.
Option --show-pep8 implies --first.
Add E901 for syntax errors. (Issues #63 and #30)
Add E901 for syntax errors. (Issues #63 and #30)
Add E271, E272, E273 and E274 for extraneous whitespace around keywords. (Issue #57)
Add tox.ini configuration file for tests. (Issue #61)
Add .travis.yml configuration file for continuous integration.
(Issue #62)
Fix inconsistent version numbers.
Fix W602 raise to handle multi-char names. (Issue #53)
raise to handle multi-char names. (Issue #53)Now --first prints only the first occurrence of each error. The --repeat flag becomes obsolete because it is the default behaviour. (Issue #6)
Now --first prints only the first occurrence of each error.
The --repeat flag becomes obsolete because it is the default
behaviour. (Issue #6)
Allow specifying --max-line-length. (Issue #36)
Make the shebang more flexible. (Issue #26)
Add testsuite to the bundle. (Issue #25)
Fixes for Jython. (Issue #49)
Add PyPI classifiers. (Issue #43)
Fix the --exclude option. (Issue #48)
Fix W602, accept raise with 3 arguments. (Issue #34)
Correctly select all tests if DEFAULT_IGNORE == ''.
Fix inconsistent version numbers. (Issue #21)
Test suite reorganized and enhanced in order to check more failures with fewer test files. Read the run_tests docstring for details about the syntax.
Test suite reorganized and enhanced in order to check more failures
with fewer test files. Read the run_tests docstring for details
about the syntax.
Fix E225: accept print >>sys.stderr, "..." syntax.
Fix E501 for lines containing multibyte encoded characters. (Issue #7)
Fix E221, E222, E223, E224 not detected in some cases. (Issue #16)
Fix E211 to reject v = dic['a'] ['b']. (Issue #17)
Exit code is always 1 if any error or warning is found. (Issue #10)
--ignore checks are now really ignored, especially in
conjunction with --count. (Issue #8)
Blank lines with spaces yield W293 instead of W291: some developers want to ignore this warning and indent the blank lines to paste their code easily in the Python interpreter.
Fix E301: do not require a blank line before an indented block. (Issue #14)
Fix E203 to accept NumPy slice notation a[0, :]. (Issue #13)
Performance improvements.
Fix decoding and checking non-UTF8 files in Python 3.
Fix E225: reject True+False when running on Python 3.
Fix an exception when the line starts with an operator.
Allow a new line before closing ), } or ]. (Issue #5)
New check W604 warns about deprecated usage of backticks.
Changed the --count switch to print to sys.stderr and set
exit code to 1 if any error or warning is found.
E241 and E242 are removed from the standard checks. If you want to
include these checks, use switch --select=E,W. (Issue #4)
Blank line is not mandatory before the first class method or nested function definition, even if there's a docstring. (Issue #1)
Add the switch --version.
Fix decoding errors with Python 3. (Issue #13 [1]_)
Add --select option which is mirror of --ignore.
Add checks E261 and E262 for spaces before inline comments.
New check W604 warns about deprecated usage of backticks.
New check W603 warns about the deprecated operator <>.
Performance improvement, due to rewriting of E225.
E225 now accepts:
no whitespace after unary operator or similar. (Issue #9 [1]_)
lambda function with argument unpacking or keyword defaults.
Reserve "2 blank lines" for module-level logical blocks. (E303)
Allow multi-line comments. (E302, issue #10 [1]_)
Decorators on classes and class methods are OK now.
Nothing published for this version
Support for all versions of Python from 2.3 to 3.1.
Support for all versions of Python from 2.3 to 3.1.
New and greatly expanded self tests.
Added --count option to print the total number of errors and warnings.
Further improvements to the handling of comments and blank lines. (Issue #1 [1]_ and others changes.)
Check all py files in directory when passed a directory (Issue
#2 [1]_). This also prevents an exception when traversing directories
with non *.py files.
E231 should allow commas to be followed by ). (Issue #3 [1]_)
Spaces are no longer required around the equals sign for keyword arguments or default parameter values.
.. [1] These issues refer to the previous issue tracker__.
.. __: http://github.com/cburroughs/pep8.py/issues
Fixes for comments: do not count them when checking for blank lines between items.
Fixes for comments: do not count them when checking for blank lines between items.
Added setup.py for pypi upload and easy_installability.
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