How can I configure Pylint to check all things PEP8 checks?

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Piotr Dobrogost picture Piotr Dobrogost · Jul 30, 2011 · Viewed 16.2k times · Source

Searching for an answer on Pylint's mailing list brings no interesting results.

Pylint is known to be very customizable, so I guess this should be possible...

The reason I would like Pylint to check compliance with PEP8 is because

  • PyDev has much better support for Pylint than it has for PEP8.
  • It's easier to have one tool doing all checks than having to use two.

I also asked this question on Pylint's mailing list at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.logilab/1039

Example of diagnostic messages from PEP8 which I don't get from Pylint:

  • E203 whitespace before ':'
  • E225 missing whitespace around operator
  • E251 no spaces around keyword / parameter equals
  • E301 expected 1 blank line, found 0
  • E303 too many blank lines
  • E501 line too long (90 characters)
  • W291 trailing whitespace
  • W292 no newline at end of file
  • W293 blank line contains whitespace

Answer

gurney alex picture gurney alex · Sep 16, 2011
  • E203 is not yet supported in Pylint AFAIK
  • E225 is C0322 / C0323
  • E251 should be C0322/C0323, but I'm not sure that Pylint does not special case parameters and allows lack of space there
  • E301, E303 are not supported AFAIK
  • E501 is C0301 and you can configure the length in your pylintrc
  • W291, W292 and W203 are not supported AFAIK.

It would be nice if you could report these as desired features over here.

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