1PYCODESTYLE(1)                    pycodestyle                   PYCODESTYLE(1)
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NAME

6       pycodestyle - pycodestyle documentation
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8       Python style guide checker
9
10       pycodestyle (formerly pep8) is a tool to check your Python code against
11       some of the style conventions in PEP 8.
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13       Contents:
14

INTRODUCTION

16       pycodestyle is a tool to check your Python code  against  some  of  the
17       style conventions in PEP 8.
18
19Features
20
21Disclaimer
22
23Installation
24
25Example usage and output
26
27Configuration
28
29Error codes
30
31Related tools
32
33   Features
34       • Plugin architecture: Adding new checks is easy.
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36       • Parseable output: Jump to error location in your editor.
37
38       • Small:  Just one Python file, requires only stdlib.  You can use just
39         the pycodestyle.py file for this purpose.
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41       • Comes with a comprehensive test suite.
42
43   Disclaimer
44       This utility does not enforce every single rule of PEP 8.  It helps  to
45       verify  that some coding conventions are applied but it does not intend
46       to be exhaustive.  Some rules cannot be expressed with a  simple  algo‐
47       rithm,  and  other rules are only guidelines which you could circumvent
48       when you need to.
49
50       Always remember this statement from PEP 8:
51          A style guide is about  consistency.  Consistency  with  this  style
52          guide  is important. Consistency within a project is more important.
53          Consistency within one module or function is most important.
54
55       Among other things, these features are currently not in  the  scope  of
56       the pycodestyle library:
57
58naming  conventions:  this kind of feature is supported through plug‐
59         ins.  Install flake8 and the pep8-naming extension to use  this  fea‐
60         ture.
61
62docstring conventions: they are not in the scope of this library; see
63         the pydocstyle project.
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65automatic fixing: see the section PEP8 Fixers in  the  related  tools
66         page.
67
68   Installation
69       You can install, upgrade, uninstall pycodestyle.py with these commands:
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71          $ pip install pycodestyle
72          $ pip install --upgrade pycodestyle
73          $ pip uninstall pycodestyle
74
75   Example usage and output
76          $ pycodestyle --first optparse.py
77          optparse.py:69:11: E401 multiple imports on one line
78          optparse.py:77:1: E302 expected 2 blank lines, found 1
79          optparse.py:88:5: E301 expected 1 blank line, found 0
80          optparse.py:222:34: W602 deprecated form of raising exception
81          optparse.py:347:31: E211 whitespace before '('
82          optparse.py:357:17: E201 whitespace after '{'
83          optparse.py:472:29: E221 multiple spaces before operator
84          optparse.py:544:21: W601 .has_key() is deprecated, use 'in'
85
86       You  can  also make pycodestyle.py show the source code for each error,
87       and even the relevant text from PEP 8:
88
89          $ pycodestyle --show-source --show-pep8 testsuite/E40.py
90          testsuite/E40.py:2:10: E401 multiple imports on one line
91          import os, sys
92                   ^
93              Imports should usually be on separate lines.
94
95              Okay: import os\nimport sys
96              E401: import sys, os
97
98       Or you can display how often each error was found:
99
100          $ pycodestyle --statistics -qq Python-2.5/Lib
101          232     E201 whitespace after '['
102          599     E202 whitespace before ')'
103          631     E203 whitespace before ','
104          842     E211 whitespace before '('
105          2531    E221 multiple spaces before operator
106          4473    E301 expected 1 blank line, found 0
107          4006    E302 expected 2 blank lines, found 1
108          165     E303 too many blank lines (4)
109          325     E401 multiple imports on one line
110          3615    E501 line too long (82 characters)
111          612     W601 .has_key() is deprecated, use 'in'
112          1188    W602 deprecated form of raising exception
113
114       You can also make pycodestyle.py show the error text in different  for‐
115       mats by using --format having options default/pylint/custom:
116
117          $ pycodestyle testsuite/E40.py --format=default
118          testsuite/E40.py:2:10: E401 multiple imports on one line
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120          $ pycodestyle testsuite/E40.py --format=pylint
121          testsuite/E40.py:2: [E401] multiple imports on one line
122
123          $ pycodestyle testsuite/E40.py --format='%(path)s|%(row)d|%(col)d| %(code)s %(text)s'
124          testsuite/E40.py|2|10| E401 multiple imports on one line
125
126       Variables in the custom format option
127
128                             ┌─────────┬───────────────┐
129                             │Variable │ Significance  │
130                             └─────────┴───────────────┘
131
132
133path     │ File name     │
134                             ├─────────┼───────────────┤
135row      │ Row number    │
136                             ├─────────┼───────────────┤
137col      │ Column number │
138                             ├─────────┼───────────────┤
139code     │ Error code    │
140                             ├─────────┼───────────────┤
141text     │ Error text    │
142                             └─────────┴───────────────┘
143
144       Quick help is available on the command line:
145
146          $ pycodestyle -h
147          Usage: pycodestyle [options] input ...
148
149          Options:
150            --version            show program's version number and exit
151            -h, --help           show this help message and exit
152            -v, --verbose        print status messages, or debug with -vv
153            -q, --quiet          report only file names, or nothing with -qq
154            --first              show first occurrence of each error
155            --exclude=patterns   exclude files or directories which match these comma
156                                 separated patterns (default: .svn,CVS,.bzr,.hg,.git)
157            --filename=patterns  when parsing directories, only check filenames matching
158                                 these comma separated patterns (default: *.py)
159            --select=errors      select errors and warnings (e.g. E,W6)
160            --ignore=errors      skip errors and warnings (e.g. E4,W)
161            --show-source        show source code for each error
162            --show-pep8          show text of PEP 8 for each error (implies --first)
163            --statistics         count errors and warnings
164            --count              print total number of errors and warnings to standard
165                                 error and set exit code to 1 if total is not null
166            --max-line-length=n  set maximum allowed line length (default: 79)
167            --max-doc-length=n   set maximum allowed doc line length and perform these
168                                 checks (unchecked if not set)
169            --indent-size=n      set how many spaces make up an indent (default: 4)
170            --hang-closing       hang closing bracket instead of matching indentation of
171                                 opening bracket's line
172            --format=format      set the error format [default|pylint|<custom>]
173            --diff               report only lines changed according to the unified diff
174                                 received on STDIN
175
176            Testing Options:
177              --benchmark        measure processing speed
178
179            Configuration:
180              The project options are read from the [pycodestyle] section of the
181              tox.ini file or the setup.cfg file located in any parent folder of the
182              path(s) being processed.  Allowed options are: exclude, filename,
183              select, ignore, max-line-length, max-doc-length, hang-closing, count,
184              format, quiet, show-pep8, show-source, statistics, verbose.
185
186              --config=path      user config file location
187              (default: ~/.config/pycodestyle)
188
189   Configuration
190       The  behaviour  may  be  configured at two levels, the user and project
191       levels.
192
193       At the user level, settings are read from the following locations:
194
195       If on Windows:
196              ~\.pycodestyle
197
198       Otherwise, if the XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable is defined:
199              XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pycodestyle
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201       Else if XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not defined:
202              ~/.config/pycodestyle
203
204       Example:
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206          [pycodestyle]
207          count = False
208          ignore = E226,E302,E41
209          max-line-length = 160
210          statistics = True
211
212       At the project level, a setup.cfg file or a tox.ini  file  is  read  if
213       present.  If  none  of  these  files  have  a [pycodestyle] section, no
214       project specific configuration is loaded.
215
216   Error codes
217       This is the current list of error and warning codes:
218
219                      ┌──────────┬────────────────────────────┐
220                      │code      │ sample message             │
221                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
222E1        Indentation
223                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
224                      │E101      │ indentation contains mixed │
225                      │          │ spaces and tabs            │
226                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
227                      │E111      │ indentation  is not a mul‐ │
228                      │          │ tiple of four              │
229                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
230                      │E112      │ expected an indented block │
231                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
232                      │E113      │ unexpected indentation     │
233                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
234                      │E114      │ indentation is not a  mul‐ │
235                      │          │ tiple of four (comment)    │
236                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
237                      │E115      │ expected an indented block │
238                      │          │ (comment)                  │
239                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
240                      │E116      │ unexpected     indentation │
241                      │          │ (comment)                  │
242                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
243                      │E117      │ over-indented              │
244                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
245                      │E121 (*^) │ continuation    line   un‐ │
246                      │          │ der-indented  for  hanging │
247                      │          │ indent                     │
248                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
249                      │E122 (^)  │ continuation  line missing │
250                      │          │ indentation or outdented   │
251                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
252                      │E123 (*)  │ closing bracket  does  not │
253                      │          │ match indentation of open‐ │
254                      │          │ ing bracket's line         │
255                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
256                      │E124 (^)  │ closing bracket  does  not │
257                      │          │ match visual indentation   │
258                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
259                      │E125 (^)  │ continuation   line   with │
260                      │          │ same indent as next  logi‐ │
261                      │          │ cal line                   │
262                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
263                      │E126 (*^) │ continuation line over-in‐ │
264                      │          │ dented for hanging indent  │
265                      └──────────┴────────────────────────────┘
266
267
268
269                      │E127 (^)  │ continuation line over-in‐ │
270                      │          │ dented for visual indent   │
271                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
272                      │E128 (^)  │ continuation    line   un‐ │
273                      │          │ der-indented  for   visual │
274                      │          │ indent                     │
275                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
276                      │E129 (^)  │ visually   indented   line │
277                      │          │ with same indent  as  next │
278                      │          │ logical line               │
279                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
280                      │E131 (^)  │ continuation    line   un‐ │
281                      │          │ aligned for hanging indent │
282                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
283                      │E133 (*)  │ closing bracket is missing │
284                      │          │ indentation                │
285                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
286                      │          │                            │
287                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
288E2        Whitespace
289                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
290                      │E201      │ whitespace after '('       │
291                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
292                      │E202      │ whitespace before ')'      │
293                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
294                      │E203      │ whitespace before ':'      │
295                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
296                      │          │                            │
297                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
298                      │E211      │ whitespace before '('      │
299                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
300                      │          │                            │
301                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
302                      │E221      │ multiple spaces before op‐ │
303                      │          │ erator                     │
304                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
305                      │E222      │ multiple spaces after  op‐ │
306                      │          │ erator                     │
307                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
308                      │E223      │ tab before operator        │
309                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
310                      │E224      │ tab after operator         │
311                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
312                      │E225      │ missing  whitespace around │
313                      │          │ operator                   │
314                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
315                      │E226 (*)  │ missing whitespace  around │
316                      │          │ arithmetic operator        │
317                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
318                      │E227      │ missing  whitespace around │
319                      │          │ bitwise or shift operator  │
320                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
321                      │E228      │ missing whitespace  around │
322                      │          │ modulo operator            │
323                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
324                      │          │                            │
325                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
326                      │E231      │ missing  whitespace  after │
327                      │          │ ',', ';', or ':'           │
328                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
329                      │          │                            │
330                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
331                      │E241 (*)  │ multiple spaces after ','  │
332                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
333                      │E242 (*)  │ tab after ','              │
334                      └──────────┴────────────────────────────┘
335
336
337                      │          │                            │
338                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
339                      │E251      │ unexpected  spaces  around │
340                      │          │ keyword / parameter equals │
341                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
342                      │          │                            │
343                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
344                      │E261      │ at least two spaces before │
345                      │          │ inline comment             │
346                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
347                      │E262      │ inline   comment    should │
348                      │          │ start with '# '            │
349                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
350                      │E265      │ block comment should start │
351                      │          │ with '# '                  │
352                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
353                      │E266      │ too many leading  '#'  for │
354                      │          │ block comment              │
355                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
356                      │          │                            │
357                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
358                      │E271      │ multiple spaces after key‐ │
359                      │          │ word                       │
360                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
361                      │E272      │ multiple   spaces   before │
362                      │          │ keyword                    │
363                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
364                      │E273      │ tab after keyword          │
365                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
366                      │E274      │ tab before keyword         │
367                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
368                      │E275      │ missing  whitespace  after │
369                      │          │ keyword                    │
370                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
371                      │          │                            │
372                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
373E3        Blank line
374                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
375                      │E301      │ expected  1  blank   line, │
376                      │          │ found 0                    │
377                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
378                      │E302      │ expected  2  blank  lines, │
379                      │          │ found 0                    │
380                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
381                      │E303      │ too many blank lines (3)   │
382                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
383                      │E304      │ blank  lines  found  after │
384                      │          │ function decorator         │
385                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
386                      │E305      │ expected 2 blank lines af‐ │
387                      │          │ ter  end  of  function  or │
388                      │          │ class                      │
389                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
390                      │E306      │ expected  1 blank line be‐ │
391                      │          │ fore a nested definition   │
392                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
393                      │          │                            │
394                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
395E4        Import
396                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
397                      │E401      │ multiple  imports  on  one │
398                      │          │ line                       │
399                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
400                      │E402      │ module level import not at │
401                      │          │ top of file                │
402                      └──────────┴────────────────────────────┘
403
404
405                      │          │                            │
406                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
407E5        Line length
408                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
409                      │E501 (^)  │ line too  long  (82  >  79 │
410                      │          │ characters)                │
411                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
412                      │E502      │ the backslash is redundant │
413                      │          │ between brackets           │
414                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
415                      │          │                            │
416                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
417E7        Statement
418                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
419                      │E701      │ multiple statements on one │
420                      │          │ line (colon)               │
421                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
422                      │E702      │ multiple statements on one │
423                      │          │ line (semicolon)           │
424                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
425                      │E703      │ statement  ends   with   a │
426                      │          │ semicolon                  │
427                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
428                      │E704 (*)  │ multiple statements on one │
429                      │          │ line (def)                 │
430                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
431                      │E711 (^)  │ comparison to None  should │
432                      │          │ be 'if cond is None:'      │
433                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
434                      │E712 (^)  │ comparison  to True should │
435                      │          │ be 'if cond is  True:'  or │
436                      │          │ 'if cond:'                 │
437                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
438                      │E713      │ test for membership should │
439                      │          │ be 'not in'                │
440                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
441                      │E714      │ test for  object  identity │
442                      │          │ should be 'is not'         │
443                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
444                      │E721 (^)  │ do  not compare types, use │
445                      │          │ 'isinstance()'             │
446                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
447                      │E722      │ do not  use  bare  except, │
448                      │          │ specify exception instead  │
449                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
450                      │E731      │ do not assign a lambda ex‐ │
451                      │          │ pression, use a def        │
452                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
453                      │E741      │ do not use variables named │
454                      │          │ 'l', 'O', or 'I'           │
455                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
456                      │E742      │ do   not   define  classes │
457                      │          │ named 'l', 'O', or 'I'     │
458                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
459                      │E743      │ do  not  define  functions │
460                      │          │ named 'l', 'O', or 'I'     │
461                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
462                      │          │                            │
463                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
464E9        Runtime
465                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
466                      │E901      │ SyntaxError   or  Indenta‐ │
467                      │          │ tionError                  │
468                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
469                      │E902      │ IOError                    │
470                      └──────────┴────────────────────────────┘
471
472
473                      │          │                            │
474                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
475W1        Indentation warning
476                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
477                      │W191      │ indentation contains tabs  │
478                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
479                      │          │                            │
480                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
481W2        Whitespace warning
482                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
483                      │W291      │ trailing whitespace        │
484                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
485                      │W292      │ no newline at end of file  │
486                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
487                      │W293      │ blank line contains white‐ │
488                      │          │ space                      │
489                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
490                      │          │                            │
491                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
492W3        Blank line warning
493                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
494                      │W391      │ blank line at end of file  │
495                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
496                      │          │                            │
497                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
498W5        Line break warning
499                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
500                      │W503 (*)  │ line  break  before binary │
501                      │          │ operator                   │
502                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
503                      │W504 (*)  │ line  break  after  binary │
504                      │          │ operator                   │
505                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
506                      │W505 (*^) │ doc line too long (82 > 79 │
507                      │          │ characters)                │
508                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
509                      │          │                            │
510                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
511W6        Deprecation warning
512                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
513                      │W601      │ .has_key() is  deprecated, │
514                      │          │ use 'in'                   │
515                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
516                      │W602      │ deprecated form of raising │
517                      │          │ exception                  │
518                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
519                      │W603      │ '<>'  is  deprecated,  use │
520                      │          │ '!='                       │
521                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
522                      │W604      │ backticks  are deprecated, │
523                      │          │ use 'repr()'               │
524                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
525                      │W605      │ invalid  escape   sequence │
526                      │          │ 'x'                        │
527                      ├──────────┼────────────────────────────┤
528                      │W606      │ 'async'  and  'await'  are │
529                      │          │ reserved keywords starting │
530                      │          │ with Python 3.7            │
531                      └──────────┴────────────────────────────┘
532
533       (*)  In  the  default configuration, the checks E121, E123, E126, E133,
534       E226, E241, E242, E704, W503, W504 and W505 are  ignored  because  they
535       are  not  rules  unanimously accepted, and PEP 8 does not enforce them.
536       Please note that if the option --ignore=errors  is  used,  the  default
537       configuration will be overridden and ignore only the check(s) you skip.
538       The check W503 is mutually exclusive with check W504.  The  check  E133
539       is  mutually  exclusive  with check E123.  Use switch --hang-closing to
540       report E133 instead of E123. Use switch  --max-doc-length=n  to  report
541       W505.
542
543       (^)  These  checks  can  be disabled at the line level using the # noqa
544       special comment.  This  possibility  should  be  reserved  for  special
545       cases.
546          Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
547
548       Note: most errors can be listed with such one-liner:
549
550          $ python pycodestyle.py --first --select E,W testsuite/ --format '%(code)s: %(text)s'
551
552   Related tools
553       The  flake8  checker is a wrapper around pycodestyle and similar tools.
554       It supports plugins.
555
556       Other tools which use pycodestyle are referenced in the Wiki:  list  of
557       related tools.
558

ADVANCED USAGE

560   Automated tests
561       You  can also execute pycodestyle tests from Python code.  For example,
562       this can be highly useful for automated testing of coding style confor‐
563       mance in your project:
564
565          import unittest
566          import pycodestyle
567
568
569          class TestCodeFormat(unittest.TestCase):
570
571              def test_conformance(self):
572                  """Test that we conform to PEP-8."""
573                  style = pycodestyle.StyleGuide(quiet=True)
574                  result = style.check_files(['file1.py', 'file2.py'])
575                  self.assertEqual(result.total_errors, 0,
576                                   "Found code style errors (and warnings).")
577
578       There's also a shortcut for checking a single file:
579
580          import pycodestyle
581
582          fchecker = pycodestyle.Checker('testsuite/E27.py', show_source=True)
583          file_errors = fchecker.check_all()
584
585          print("Found %s errors (and warnings)" % file_errors)
586
587   Configuring tests
588       You can configure automated pycodestyle tests in a variety of ways.
589
590       For  example,  you  can pass in a path to a configuration file that py‐
591       codestyle should use:
592
593          import pycodestyle
594
595          style = pycodestyle.StyleGuide(config_file='/path/to/tox.ini')
596
597       You can also set specific options explicitly:
598
599          style = pycodestyle.StyleGuide(ignore=['E501'])
600
601   Skip file header
602       Another example is related to the feature request #143: skip  a  number
603       of lines at the beginning and the end of a file.  This use case is easy
604       to implement through a custom wrapper for the PEP 8 library:
605
606          #!python
607          import pycodestyle
608
609          LINES_SLICE = slice(14, -20)
610
611          class StyleGuide(pycodestyle.StyleGuide):
612              """This subclass of pycodestyle.StyleGuide will skip the first and last lines
613              of each file."""
614
615              def input_file(self, filename, lines=None, expected=None, line_offset=0):
616                  if lines is None:
617                      assert line_offset == 0
618                      line_offset = LINES_SLICE.start or 0
619                      lines = pycodestyle.readlines(filename)[LINES_SLICE]
620                  return super(StyleGuide, self).input_file(
621                      filename, lines=lines, expected=expected, line_offset=line_offset)
622
623          if __name__ == '__main__':
624              style = StyleGuide(parse_argv=True, config_file=True)
625              report = style.check_files()
626              if report.total_errors:
627                  raise SystemExit(1)
628
629       This module declares a lines' window which skips 14 lines at the begin‐
630       ning  and  20 lines at the end.  If there's no line to skip at the end,
631       it could be changed with LINES_SLICE = slice(14, None) for example.
632
633       You can save it in a file and use it with the same options as the orig‐
634       inal pycodestyle.
635

PYCODESTYLE API

637       The library provides classes which are usable by third party tools.
638
639Checker Classes
640
641Report Classes
642
643Utilities
644
645   Checker Classes
646       The  StyleGuide  class  is  used to configure a style guide checker in‐
647       stance to check multiple files.
648
649       The Checker class can be used to check a single file.
650
651       class    pycodestyle.StyleGuide(parse_argv=False,     config_file=None,
652       parser=None, paths=None, report=None, **kwargs)
653              Initialize a PEP-8 instance with few options.
654
655              init_report(reporter=None)
656                     Initialize the report instance.
657
658              check_files(paths=None)
659                     Run all checks on the paths.
660
661              input_file(filename, lines=None, expected=None, line_offset=0)
662                     Run all checks on a Python source file.
663
664              input_dir(dirname)
665                     Check all files in this directory and all subdirectories.
666
667              excluded(filename, parent=None)
668                     Check if the file should be excluded.
669
670                     Check  if  'options.exclude'  contains a pattern matching
671                     filename.
672
673              ignore_code(code)
674                     Check if the error code should be ignored.
675
676                     If 'options.select' contains a prefix of the error  code,
677                     return  False.  Else, if 'options.ignore' contains a pre‐
678                     fix of the error code, return True.
679
680              get_checks(argument_name)
681                     Get all the checks for this category.
682
683                     Find all globally visible functions where the first argu‐
684                     ment name starts with argument_name and which contain se‐
685                     lected tests.
686
687       class   pycodestyle.Checker(filename=None,   lines=None,   report=None,
688       **kwargs)
689              Load a Python source file, tokenize it, check coding style.
690
691              readline()
692                     Get the next line from the input buffer.
693
694              run_check(check, argument_names)
695                     Run a check plugin.
696
697              check_physical(line)
698                     Run all physical checks on a raw input line.
699
700              build_tokens_line()
701                     Build a logical line from tokens.
702
703              check_logical()
704                     Build  a  line  from tokens and run all logical checks on
705                     it.
706
707              check_ast()
708                     Build the file's AST and run all AST checks.
709
710              generate_tokens()
711                     Tokenize file, run physical line checks and yield tokens.
712
713              check_all(expected=None, line_offset=0)
714                     Run all checks on the input file.
715
716   Report Classes
717       class pycodestyle.BaseReport(options)
718              Collect the results of the checks.
719
720              start()
721                     Start the timer.
722
723              stop() Stop the timer.
724
725              init_file(filename, lines, expected, line_offset)
726                     Signal a new file.
727
728              increment_logical_line()
729                     Signal a new logical line.
730
731              error(line_number, offset, text, check)
732                     Report an error, according to options.
733
734              get_file_results()
735                     Return the count of errors and warnings for this file.
736
737              get_count(prefix='')
738                     Return the total count of errors and warnings.
739
740              get_statistics(prefix='')
741                     Get statistics for message codes that start with the pre‐
742                     fix.
743
744                     prefix=''  matches  all  errors  and  warnings prefix='E'
745                     matches all errors prefix='W' matches all  warnings  pre‐
746                     fix='E4' matches all errors that have to do with imports
747
748              print_statistics(prefix='')
749                     Print overall statistics (number of errors and warnings).
750
751              print_benchmark()
752                     Print benchmark numbers.
753
754       class pycodestyle.FileReport(options)
755              Collect the results of the checks and print the filenames.
756
757       class pycodestyle.StandardReport(options)
758              Collect and print the results of the checks.
759
760       class pycodestyle.DiffReport(options)
761              Collect and print the results for the changed lines only.
762
763   Utilities
764       pycodestyle.expand_indent(line)
765              Return the amount of indentation.
766
767              Tabs are expanded to the next multiple of 8.
768
769              >>> expand_indent('    ')
770              4
771              >>> expand_indent('\t')
772              8
773              >>> expand_indent('       \t')
774              8
775              >>> expand_indent('        \t')
776              16
777
778       pycodestyle.mute_string(text)
779              Replace contents with 'xxx' to prevent syntax matching.
780
781              >>> mute_string('"abc"')
782              '"xxx"'
783              >>> mute_string("'''abc'''")
784              "'''xxx'''"
785              >>> mute_string("r'abc'")
786              "r'xxx'"
787
788       pycodestyle.read_config(options, args, arglist, parser)
789              Read and parse configurations.
790
791              If  a  config  file  is  specified  on the command line with the
792              "--config" option, then only it is used for configuration.
793
794              Otherwise, the user  configuration  (~/.config/pycodestyle)  and
795              any  local configurations in the current directory or above will
796              be merged together (in that order) using the read method of Con‐
797              figParser.
798
799       pycodestyle.process_options(arglist=None,     parse_argv=False,    con‐
800       fig_file=None)
801              Process options passed either via arglist or command line args.
802
803              Passing in the config_file parameter allows other tools, such as
804              flake8  to  specify  their  own  options  to be processed in py‐
805              codestyle.
806
807       pycodestyle.register_check(func_or_cls, codes=None)
808              Register a new check object.
809

DEVELOPER'S NOTES

811   Source code
812       The source code is currently available on GitHub under  the  terms  and
813       conditions of the Expat license.  Fork away!
814
815Source code and issue tracker on GitHub.
816
817Continuous  tests  against Python 2.7 and 3.5+ as well as the nightly
818         Python build and PyPy, on GitHub Actions.
819
820   Direction
821       Some high-level aims and directions to bear in mind for contributions:
822
823pycodestyle is intended to be as fast as  possible.   Using  the  ast
824         module  defeats that purpose.  The pep8-naming plugin exists for this
825         sort of functionality.
826
827       • If you want to provide extensibility / plugins, please see  flake8  -
828         pycodestyle doesn't want or need a plugin architecture.
829
830pycodestyle aims to have no external dependencies.
831
832   Contribute
833       You  can add checks to this program by writing plugins.  Each plugin is
834       a simple function that is called for each line of source  code,  either
835       physical or logical.
836
837       Physical line:
838
839       • Raw line of text from the input file.
840
841       Logical line:
842
843       • Multi-line statements converted to a single line.
844
845       • Stripped left and right.
846
847       • Contents of strings replaced with "xxx" of same length.
848
849       • Comments removed.
850
851       The  check  function  requests physical or logical lines by the name of
852       the first argument:
853
854          def maximum_line_length(physical_line)
855          def extraneous_whitespace(logical_line)
856          def blank_lines(logical_line, blank_lines, indent_level, line_number)
857
858       The last example above demonstrates how check plugins can request addi‐
859       tional information with extra arguments.  All attributes of the Checker
860       object are available.  Some examples:
861
862lines: a list of the raw lines from the input file
863
864tokens: the tokens that contribute to this logical line
865
866line_number: line number in the input file
867
868total_lines: number of lines in the input file
869
870blank_lines: blank lines before this one
871
872indent_char: indentation character in this file (" " or "\t")
873
874indent_level: indentation (with tabs expanded to multiples of 8)
875
876previous_indent_level: indentation on previous line
877
878previous_logical: previous logical line
879
880       Check plugins can also maintain per-file state. If you need  this,  de‐
881       clare a parameter named checker_state. You will be passed a dict, which
882       will be the same one for all lines in the same file but a different one
883       for  different files. Each check plugin gets its own dict, so you don't
884       need to worry about clobbering the state of other plugins.
885
886       The docstring of each check function shall be the relevant part of text
887       from  PEP  8.   It is printed if the user enables --show-pep8.  Several
888       docstrings contain examples directly from the PEP 8 document.
889
890          Okay: spam(ham[1], {eggs: 2})
891          E201: spam( ham[1], {eggs: 2})
892
893       These examples are verified automatically when  pycodestyle.py  is  run
894       with  the  --doctest  option.   You can add examples for your own check
895       functions.  The format is simple: "Okay" or error/warning code followed
896       by  colon  and  space, the rest of the line is example source code.  If
897       you put 'r' before the docstring, you can use \n for newline and \t for
898       tab.
899
900       Then be sure to pass the tests:
901
902          $ python pycodestyle.py --testsuite testsuite
903          $ python pycodestyle.py --doctest
904          $ python pycodestyle.py --verbose pycodestyle.py
905
906       When contributing to pycodestyle, please observe our Code of Conduct.
907
908       To run the tests, the core developer team and GitHub Actions use tox:
909
910          $ pip install -r dev-requirements.txt
911          $ tox
912
913       All the tests should pass for all available interpreters, with the sum‐
914       mary of:
915
916          congratulations :)
917
918   Changes
919   2.8.0 (2021-10-10)
920       Changes:
921
922       • Drop python 3.4.  PR #982.
923
924       • E712: fix false negative with multiple comparisons.  PR #987.
925
926       • E211: fix false positives with match.  PR #989.
927
928       • E772: improve performance of bare except check.  PR #992.
929
930       • Backport tokenize performance improvement from python 3.10.  PR #993.
931
932       • E225: fix for lambdas containing positional-only args.  PR #1012.
933
934       • Remove indent_size_str "setting".  PR #995.
935
936       • E402: allow __all__ to be typed.  PR #1019.
937
938       • E225: fix false positives for * in case.  PR #1003.
939
940       • E201: detect tabs as whitespace.  PR #1015.
941
942   2.7.0 (2021-03-14)
943       Changes:
944
945       • Fix physical checks (such as W191) at end of file.  PR #961.
946
947       • Add --indent-size option (defaulting to 4).  PR #970.
948
949       • W605: fix escaped crlf false positive on windows.  PR #976.
950
951   2.6.0 (2020-05-11)
952       Announcements:
953
954       • Anthony Sottile (@asottile) joined the  team  as  a  core  developer.
955         :tada:
956
957       Changes:
958
959       • E306: fix detection inside async def.  PR #929.
960
961       • E301: fix regression disallowing decorated one-liners.  PR #927.
962
963       • E714: fix false positive with chained is not.  PR #931.
964
965   2.6.0a1 (2020-04-23)
966       New checks:
967
968       • E225: require whitespace around and in is and or.  PR #847.
969
970       Changes:
971
972       • E117:  fix indentation using tabs by treating as 8-space indents.  PR
973         #837.
974
975       • E721: fix false positive with names containg istype.  PR #850.
976
977       • E741: allow l as a named argument in a function call.  PR #853.
978
979       • E302: fix false-negative with decorated functions.  PR #859.
980
981       • W504: ellipsis (...) is no longer treated as a binary  operator.   PR
982         #875.
983
984       • E402: allow with, if, elif, else to guard imports.  PR #834.
985
986       • Add support for assignment expressions := (PEP 572).  PR #879.
987
988       • Add  support  for  positional-only  arguments  / (PEP 570).  PR #872,
989         #918.
990
991       • Add support for python 3.8.
992
993       • Add support for matrix multiplication operator @ (PEP 465).  PR #897.
994
995       • Support visual indent for continuation lines  for  with  /  assert  /
996         raise.  PR #912.
997
998       • E302: allow two blank lines after a block of one-liners.  PR #913.
999
1000       • E302: allow two-and-fewer newlines at the top of the file.  PR #919.
1001
1002   2.5.0 (2019-01-29)
1003       New checks:
1004
1005       • E117: Over-indented code blocks
1006
1007       • W505:   Maximum   doc-string   length   only   when  configured  with
1008         --max-doc-length
1009
1010       Changes:
1011
1012       • Remove support for EOL Python 2.6 and 3.3. PR #720.
1013
1014       • Add E117 error for over-indented code blocks.
1015
1016       • Allow W605 to be silenced by # noqa and fix the position reported  by
1017         W605
1018
1019       • Allow  users  to  omit  blank  lines  around one-liner definitions of
1020         classes and functions
1021
1022       • Include the function return annotation (->) as requiring  surrounding
1023         whitespace only on Python 3
1024
1025       • Verify  that  only names can follow await. Previously we allowed num‐
1026         bers and strings.
1027
1028       • Add support for Python 3.7
1029
1030       • Fix detection of annotated argument defaults for E252
1031
1032       • Correct the position reported by W504
1033
1034   2.4.0 (2018-04-10)
1035       New checks:
1036
1037       • Add W504 warning for checking that a break doesn't happen after a bi‐
1038         nary operator. This check is ignored by default. PR #502.
1039
1040       • Add  W605 warning for invalid escape sequences in string literals. PR
1041         #676.
1042
1043       • Add W606 warning for 'async' and 'await' reserved keywords being  in‐
1044         troduced in Python 3.7. PR #684.
1045
1046       • Add E252 error for missing whitespace around equal sign in type anno‐
1047         tated function arguments with defaults values. PR #717.
1048
1049       Changes:
1050
1051       • An internal bisect search has replaced a linear search  in  order  to
1052         improve efficiency. PR #648.
1053
1054       • pycodestyle now uses PyPI trove classifiers in order to document sup‐
1055         ported python versions on PyPI. PR #654.
1056
1057       • 'setup.cfg' '[wheel]' section has been renamed to '[bdist_wheel]', as
1058         the former is legacy. PR #653.
1059
1060       • pycodestyle  now  handles  very  long lines much more efficiently for
1061         python 3.2+. Fixes #643. PR #644.
1062
1063       • You can now write 'pycodestyle.StyleGuide(verbose=True)'  instead  of
1064         'pycodestyle.StyleGuide(verbose=True,   paths=['-v'])'  in  order  to
1065         achieve verbosity. PR #663.
1066
1067       • The distribution of pycodestyle now includes the license text in  or‐
1068         der to comply with open source licenses which require this. PR #694.
1069
1070       • 'maximum_line_length' now ignores shebang ('#!') lines. PR #736.
1071
1072       • Add configuration option for the allowed number of blank lines. It is
1073         implemented as a top level dictionary which can be  easily  overwrit‐
1074         ten. Fixes #732. PR #733.
1075
1076       Bugs:
1077
1078       • Prevent a 'DeprecationWarning', and a 'SyntaxError' in future python,
1079         caused by an invalid escape sequence. PR #625.
1080
1081       • Correctly report E501 when the first line of a docstring is too long.
1082         Resolves #622. PR #630.
1083
1084       • Support variable annotation when variable start by a keyword, such as
1085         class variable type annotations in python 3.6. PR #640.
1086
1087       • pycodestyle internals have been changed in order to allow 'python3 -m
1088         cProfile' to report correct metrics. PR #647.
1089
1090       • Fix a spelling mistake in the description of E722. PR #697.
1091
1092       • 'pycodestyle  --diff'  now does not break if your 'gitconfig' enables
1093         'mnemonicprefix'. PR #706.
1094
1095   2.3.1 (2017-01-31)
1096       Bugs:
1097
1098       • Fix regression in detection of E302 and E306; #618, #620
1099
1100   2.3.0 (2017-01-30)
1101       New Checks:
1102
1103       • Add E722 warning for bare except clauses
1104
1105       • Report E704 for async function definitions (async def)
1106
1107       Bugs:
1108
1109       • Fix another E305 false positive for variables beginning with  "class"
1110         or "def"
1111
1112       • Fix detection of multiple spaces between async and def
1113
1114       • Fix  handling  of variable annotations. Stop reporting E701 on Python
1115         3.6 for variable annotations.
1116
1117   2.2.0 (2016-11-14)
1118       Announcements:
1119
1120       • Added Make target to obtain proper tarball file permissions; #599
1121
1122       Bugs:
1123
1124       • Fixed E305 regression caused by #400; #593
1125
1126   2.1.0 (2016-11-04)
1127       Announcements:
1128
1129       • Change all references to the pep8 project to say pycodestyle; #530
1130
1131       Changes:
1132
1133       • Report E302 for blank lines before an "async def"; #556
1134
1135       • Update our list of tested and supported  Python  versions  which  are
1136         2.6,  2.7,  3.2, 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5 as well as the nightly Python build
1137         and PyPy.
1138
1139       • Report E742 and E743 for functions and classes badly named 'l',  'O',
1140         or 'I'.
1141
1142       • Report E741 on 'global' and 'nonlocal' statements, as well as prohib‐
1143         ited single-letter variables.
1144
1145       • Deprecated use of [pep8] section name in favor of [pycodestyle]; #591
1146
1147       • Report E722 when bare except clause is used; #579
1148
1149       Bugs:
1150
1151       • Fix opt_type AssertionError when using Flake8 2.6.2 and  pycodestyle;
1152         #561
1153
1154       • Require two blank lines after toplevel def, class; #536
1155
1156       • Remove  accidentally  quadratic  computation  based  on the number of
1157         colons. This will make pycodestyle faster in some cases; #314
1158
1159   2.0.0 (2016-05-31)
1160       Announcements:
1161
1162       • Repository renamed to pycodestyle; Issue #466 / #481.
1163
1164       • Added joint Code of Conduct as member of PyCQA; #483
1165
1166       Changes:
1167
1168       • Added tox test support for Python 3.5 and pypy3
1169
1170       • Added check E275 for whitespace on from ... import ... lines; #489  /
1171         #491
1172
1173       • Added W503 to the list of codes ignored by default ignore list; #498
1174
1175       • Removed use of project level .pep8 configuration file; #364
1176
1177       Bugs:
1178
1179       • Fixed bug with treating ~ operator as binary; #383 / #384
1180
1181       • Identify binary operators as unary; #484 / #485
1182
1183   1.7.0 (2016-01-12)
1184       Announcements:
1185
1186       • Repository     moved     to    PyCQA    Organization    on    GitHub:
1187         https://github.com/pycqa/pep8
1188
1189       Changes:
1190
1191       • Reverted the fix in #368, "options passed on command  line  are  only
1192         ones accepted" feature. This has many unintended consequences in pep8
1193         and flake8 and needs to be reworked when I have more time.
1194
1195       • Added support for Python 3.5. (Issue #420 & #459)
1196
1197       • Added support for multi-line config_file option parsing. (Issue #429)
1198
1199       • Improved parameter parsing. (Issues #420 & #456)
1200
1201       Bugs:
1202
1203       • Fixed BytesWarning on Python 3. (Issue #459)
1204
1205   1.6.2 (2015-02-15)
1206       Changes:
1207
1208       • Added check for breaking around a binary operator. (Issue #197,  Pull
1209         #305)
1210
1211       Bugs:
1212
1213       • Restored config_file parameter in process_options(). (Issue #380)
1214
1215   1.6.1 (2015-02-08)
1216       Changes:
1217
1218       • Assign variables before referenced. (Issue #287)
1219
1220       Bugs:
1221
1222       • Exception thrown due to unassigned local_dir variable. (Issue #377)
1223
1224   1.6.0 (2015-02-06)
1225       News:
1226
1227       • Ian Lee <ianlee1521@gmail.com> joined the project as a maintainer.
1228
1229       Changes:
1230
1231       • Report E731 for lambda assignment. (Issue #277)
1232
1233       • Report  E704  for  one-liner def instead of E701.  Do not report this
1234         error in the default configuration. (Issue #277)
1235
1236       • Replace codes E111, E112 and E113 with codes E114, E115 and E116  for
1237         bad indentation of comments. (Issue #274)
1238
1239       • Report E266 instead of E265 when the block comment starts with multi‐
1240         ple #. (Issue #270)
1241
1242       • Report E402 for import statements not at the top of the file.  (Issue
1243         #264)
1244
1245       • Do not enforce whitespaces around ** operator. (Issue #292)
1246
1247       • Strip  whitespace from around paths during normalization. (Issue #339
1248         / #343)
1249
1250       • Update --format documentation. (Issue #198 / Pull Request #310)
1251
1252       • Add .tox/ to default excludes. (Issue #335)
1253
1254       • Do not report E121 or E126 in the default configuration. (Issues #256
1255         / #316)
1256
1257       • Allow  spaces around the equals sign in an annotated function. (Issue
1258         #357)
1259
1260       • Allow trailing backslash if in an inline comment. (Issue #374)
1261
1262       • If --config is used, only that configuration is processed. Otherwise,
1263         merge  the  user  and  local configurations are merged. (Issue #368 /
1264         #369)
1265
1266       Bug fixes:
1267
1268       • Don't crash if Checker.build_tokens_line() returns None. (Issue #306)
1269
1270       • Don't crash if os.path.expanduser()  throws  an  ImportError.  (Issue
1271         #297)
1272
1273       • Missing  space  around  keyword  parameter equal not always reported,
1274         E251.  (Issue #323)
1275
1276       • Fix false positive E711/E712/E713. (Issues #330 and #336)
1277
1278       • Do not skip physical checks if the newline is escaped. (Issue #319)
1279
1280       • Flush sys.stdout to avoid race conditions with printing.  See  flake8
1281         bug: https://gitlab.com/pycqa/flake8/issues/17 for more details. (Is‐
1282         sue #363)
1283
1284   1.5.7 (2014-05-29)
1285       Bug fixes:
1286
1287       • Skip the traceback on "Broken pipe" signal. (Issue #275)
1288
1289       • Do not exit when an option in setup.cfg or tox.ini is not recognized.
1290
1291       • Check the last line even if it does not end with  a  newline.  (Issue
1292         #286)
1293
1294       • Always  open  files  in  universal  newlines mode in Python 2. (Issue
1295         #288)
1296
1297   1.5.6 (2014-04-14)
1298       Bug fixes:
1299
1300       • Check the last line even if it has no end-of-line. (Issue #273)
1301
1302   1.5.5 (2014-04-10)
1303       Bug fixes:
1304
1305       • Fix regression with E22 checks and inline comments. (Issue #271)
1306
1307   1.5.4 (2014-04-07)
1308       Bug fixes:
1309
1310       • Fix negative offset with E303 before a multi-line docstring.   (Issue
1311         #269)
1312
1313   1.5.3 (2014-04-04)
1314       Bug fixes:
1315
1316       • Fix  wrong  offset  computation  when  error is on the last char of a
1317         physical line. (Issue #268)
1318
1319   1.5.2 (2014-04-04)
1320       Changes:
1321
1322       • Distribute a universal wheel file.
1323
1324       Bug fixes:
1325
1326       • Report correct line number for E303 with comments. (Issue #60)
1327
1328       • Do not allow newline after parameter equal. (Issue #252)
1329
1330       • Fix line number reported for multi-line strings. (Issue #220)
1331
1332       • Fix false positive E121/E126 with multi-line strings. (Issue #265)
1333
1334       • Fix E501 not detected in comments with Python 2.5.
1335
1336       • Fix caret position with --show-source when line contains tabs.
1337
1338   1.5.1 (2014-03-27)
1339       Bug fixes:
1340
1341       • Fix a crash with E125 on multi-line strings. (Issue #263)
1342
1343   1.5 (2014-03-26)
1344       Changes:
1345
1346       • Report E129 instead of E125 for visually indented line with same  in‐
1347         dent as next logical line.  (Issue #126)
1348
1349       • Report E265 for space before block comment. (Issue #190)
1350
1351       • Report  E713  and  E714  when  operators not in and is not are recom‐
1352         mended. (Issue #236)
1353
1354       • Allow long lines in multiline strings and comments if they cannot  be
1355         wrapped. (Issue #224).
1356
1357       • Optionally disable physical line checks inside multiline strings, us‐
1358         ing # noqa. (Issue #242)
1359
1360       • Change text for E121 to report "continuation line under-indented  for
1361         hanging indent" instead of indentation not being a multiple of 4.
1362
1363       • Report  E131 instead of E121 / E126 if the hanging indent is not con‐
1364         sistent within the same continuation block.  It helps when error E121
1365         or E126 is in the ignore list.
1366
1367       • Report  E126  instead  of  E121 when the continuation line is hanging
1368         with extra indentation, even if indentation is not a multiple of 4.
1369
1370       Bug fixes:
1371
1372       • Allow the checkers to report errors on empty files. (Issue #240)
1373
1374       • Fix ignoring too many checks when --select is  used  with  codes  de‐
1375         clared in a flake8 extension. (Issue #216)
1376
1377       • Fix regression with multiple brackets. (Issue #214)
1378
1379       • Fix  StyleGuide to parse the local configuration if the keyword argu‐
1380         ment paths is specified. (Issue #246)
1381
1382       • Fix a false positive E124 for hanging indent. (Issue #254)
1383
1384       • Fix a false positive E126 with embedded colon. (Issue #144)
1385
1386       • Fix a false positive E126 when indenting with tabs. (Issue #204)
1387
1388       • Fix behaviour when exclude is in the configuration file and the  cur‐
1389         rent directory is not the project directory. (Issue #247)
1390
1391       • The  logical  checks  can  return  None instead of an empty iterator.
1392         (Issue #250)
1393
1394       • Do not report multiple E101 if only the first indentation starts with
1395         a tab. (Issue #237)
1396
1397       • Fix a rare false positive W602. (Issue #34)
1398
1399   1.4.6 (2013-07-02)
1400       Changes:
1401
1402       • Honor # noqa for errors E711 and E712. (Issue #180)
1403
1404       • When both a tox.ini and a setup.cfg are present in the project direc‐
1405         tory, merge their contents.  The tox.ini file takes precedence  (same
1406         as before). (Issue #182)
1407
1408       • Give priority to --select over --ignore. (Issue #188)
1409
1410       • Compare full path when excluding a file. (Issue #186)
1411
1412       • New option --hang-closing to switch to the alternative style of clos‐
1413         ing bracket indentation for hanging indent.  Add error E133 for clos‐
1414         ing bracket which is missing indentation. (Issue #103)
1415
1416       • Accept both styles of closing bracket indentation for hanging indent.
1417         Do not report error E123 in the default configuration. (Issue #103)
1418
1419       Bug fixes:
1420
1421       • Do not crash when running AST checks and the document  contains  null
1422         bytes.  (Issue #184)
1423
1424       • Correctly report other E12 errors when E123 is ignored. (Issue #103)
1425
1426       • Fix  false  positive  E261/E262  when the file contains a BOM. (Issue
1427         #193)
1428
1429       • Fix E701, E702 and E703 not detected sometimes. (Issue #196)
1430
1431       • Fix E122 not detected in some cases. (Issue #201 and #208)
1432
1433       • Fix false positive E121 with multiple brackets. (Issue #203)
1434
1435   1.4.5 (2013-03-06)
1436       • When no path is specified, do not try to read from stdin.   The  fea‐
1437         ture  was  added in 1.4.3, but it is not supported on Windows.  Use -
1438         filename argument to read from stdin.  This usage is supported  since
1439         1.3.4. (Issue #170)
1440
1441       • Do not require setuptools in setup.py.  It works around an issue with
1442         pip and Python 3. (Issue #172)
1443
1444       • Add __pycache__ to the ignore list.
1445
1446       • Change misleading message for E251. (Issue #171)
1447
1448       • Do not report false E302 when the source file has a coding cookie  or
1449         a comment on the first line. (Issue #174)
1450
1451       • Reorganize  the  tests  and add tests for the API and for the command
1452         line usage and options. (Issues #161 and #162)
1453
1454       • Ignore all checks which are not explicitly selected  when  select  is
1455         passed to the StyleGuide constructor.
1456
1457   1.4.4 (2013-02-24)
1458       • Report  E227  or  E228 instead of E225 for whitespace around bitwise,
1459         shift or modulo operators. (Issue #166)
1460
1461       • Change the message for E226 to make clear that it is about arithmetic
1462         operators.
1463
1464       • Fix  a  false  positive  E128  for continuation line indentation with
1465         tabs.
1466
1467       • Fix regression with the --diff option. (Issue #169)
1468
1469       • Fix the TestReport class to print the unexpected warnings and errors.
1470
1471   1.4.3 (2013-02-22)
1472       • Hide the --doctest and --testsuite options when installed.
1473
1474       • Fix crash with AST checkers when the syntax is invalid. (Issue #160)
1475
1476       • Read from standard input if no path is specified.
1477
1478       • Initiate a graceful shutdown on Control+C.
1479
1480       • Allow changing the checker_class for the StyleGuide.
1481
1482   1.4.2 (2013-02-10)
1483       • Support AST checkers provided by third-party applications.
1484
1485       • Register new checkers with register_check(func_or_cls, codes).
1486
1487       • Allow constructing a StyleGuide with a custom parser.
1488
1489       • Accept visual indentation without parenthesis after the if statement.
1490         (Issue #151)
1491
1492       • Fix UnboundLocalError when using # noqa with continued lines.  (Issue
1493         #158)
1494
1495       • Re-order the lines for the StandardReport.
1496
1497       • Expand tabs when checking E12 continuation lines. (Issue #155)
1498
1499       • Refactor the testing class TestReport and the specific test functions
1500         into a separate test module.
1501
1502   1.4.1 (2013-01-18)
1503       • Allow sphinx.ext.autodoc syntax for comments. (Issue #110)
1504
1505       • Report E703 instead of E702 for the trailing semicolon. (Issue #117)
1506
1507       • Honor # noqa in addition to # nopep8. (Issue #149)
1508
1509       • Expose the OptionParser factory for better extensibility.
1510
1511   1.4 (2012-12-22)
1512       • Report E226 instead of E225 for optional whitespace around common op‐
1513         erators (*, **, /, + and -).  This new error code is ignored  in  the
1514         default  configuration  because  PEP  8  recommends  to "use your own
1515         judgement". (Issue #96)
1516
1517       • Lines with a # nopep8 at the end will not issue errors on line length
1518         E501 or continuation line indentation E12*. (Issue #27)
1519
1520       • Fix AssertionError when the source file contains an invalid line end‐
1521         ing "\r\r\n". (Issue #119)
1522
1523       • Read the [pep8] section of tox.ini or setup.cfg if  present.   (Issue
1524         #93 and #141)
1525
1526       • Add    the    Sphinx-based   documentation,   and   publish   it   on
1527         https://pycodestyle.readthedocs.io/. (Issue #105)
1528
1529   1.3.4 (2012-12-18)
1530       • Fix false positive E124 and E128 with comments. (Issue #100)
1531
1532       • Fix error on stdin when running with bpython. (Issue #101)
1533
1534       • Fix false positive E401. (Issue #104)
1535
1536       • Report E231 for nested dictionary in list. (Issue #142)
1537
1538       • Catch E271 at the beginning of the line. (Issue #133)
1539
1540       • Fix false positive E126 for multi-line comments. (Issue #138)
1541
1542       • Fix false positive E221 when operator is preceded by a comma.  (Issue
1543         #135)
1544
1545       • Fix --diff failing on one-line hunk. (Issue #137)
1546
1547       • Fix the --exclude switch for directory paths. (Issue #111)
1548
1549       • Use - filename to read from standard input. (Issue #128)
1550
1551   1.3.3 (2012-06-27)
1552       • Fix regression with continuation line checker. (Issue #98)
1553
1554   1.3.2 (2012-06-26)
1555       • Revert  to  the  previous  behaviour  for  --show-pep8:  do not imply
1556         --first. (Issue #89)
1557
1558       • Add E902 for IO errors. (Issue #87)
1559
1560       • Fix false positive for E121, and missed E124. (Issue #92)
1561
1562       • Set a sensible default path for config file on Windows. (Issue #95)
1563
1564       • Allow verbose in the configuration file. (Issue #91)
1565
1566       • Show the enforced max-line-length in the error message. (Issue #86)
1567
1568   1.3.1 (2012-06-18)
1569       • Explain which configuration options are expected.  Accept and  recom‐
1570         mend the options names with hyphen instead of underscore. (Issue #82)
1571
1572       • Do  not  read the user configuration when used as a module (except if
1573         config_file=True is passed to the StyleGuide constructor).
1574
1575       • Fix wrong or missing cases for the E12 series.
1576
1577       • Fix cases where E122 was missed. (Issue #81)
1578
1579   1.3 (2012-06-15)
1580       WARNING:
1581          The internal API is backwards incompatible.
1582
1583       • Remove  global  configuration  and  refactor  the  library  around  a
1584         StyleGuide  class;  add  the  ability to configure various reporters.
1585         (Issue #35 and #66)
1586
1587       • Read user configuration from ~/.config/pep8 and  local  configuration
1588         from ./.pep8. (Issue #22)
1589
1590       • Fix E502 for backslash embedded in multi-line string. (Issue #68)
1591
1592       • Fix E225 for Python 3 iterable unpacking (PEP 3132). (Issue #72)
1593
1594       • Enable the new checkers from the E12 series in the default configura‐
1595         tion.
1596
1597       • Suggest less error-prone alternatives for E712 errors.
1598
1599       • Rewrite checkers to run faster (E22, E251, E27).
1600
1601       • Fixed a crash when parsed code is invalid (too  many  closing  brack‐
1602         ets).
1603
1604       • Fix E127 and E128 for continuation line indentation. (Issue #74)
1605
1606       • New option --format to customize the error format. (Issue #23)
1607
1608       • New  option  --diff to check only modified code.  The unified diff is
1609         read from STDIN.  Example: hg diff | pep8 --diff (Issue #39)
1610
1611       • Correctly report the count of failures and set the  exit  code  to  1
1612         when the --doctest or the --testsuite fails.
1613
1614       • Correctly detect the encoding in Python 3. (Issue #69)
1615
1616       • Drop support for Python 2.3, 2.4 and 3.0. (Issue #78)
1617
1618   1.2 (2012-06-01)
1619       • Add  E121  through  E128  for  continuation  line indentation.  These
1620         checks are disabled by default.  If you want to force all checks, use
1621         switch --select=E,W.  Patch by Sam Vilain. (Issue #64)
1622
1623       • Add E721 for direct type comparisons. (Issue #47)
1624
1625       • Add E711 and E712 for comparisons to singletons. (Issue #46)
1626
1627       • Fix spurious E225 and E701 for function annotations. (Issue #29)
1628
1629       • Add E502 for explicit line join between brackets.
1630
1631       • Fix E901 when printing source with --show-source.
1632
1633       • Report  all  errors  for  each checker, instead of reporting only the
1634         first occurrence for each line.
1635
1636       • Option --show-pep8 implies --first.
1637
1638   1.1 (2012-05-24)
1639       • Add E901 for syntax errors. (Issues #63 and #30)
1640
1641       • Add E271, E272, E273 and E274 for extraneous whitespace  around  key‐
1642         words. (Issue #57)
1643
1644       • Add tox.ini configuration file for tests. (Issue #61)
1645
1646       • Add  .travis.yml configuration file for continuous integration.  (Is‐
1647         sue #62)
1648
1649   1.0.1 (2012-04-06)
1650       • Fix inconsistent version numbers.
1651
1652   1.0 (2012-04-04)
1653       • Fix W602 raise to handle multi-char names. (Issue #53)
1654
1655   0.7.0 (2012-03-26)
1656       • Now --first prints only the first  occurrence  of  each  error.   The
1657         --repeat  flag  becomes obsolete because it is the default behaviour.
1658         (Issue #6)
1659
1660       • Allow specifying --max-line-length. (Issue #36)
1661
1662       • Make the shebang more flexible. (Issue #26)
1663
1664       • Add testsuite to the bundle. (Issue #25)
1665
1666       • Fixes for Jython. (Issue #49)
1667
1668       • Add PyPI classifiers. (Issue #43)
1669
1670       • Fix the --exclude option. (Issue #48)
1671
1672       • Fix W602, accept raise with 3 arguments. (Issue #34)
1673
1674       • Correctly select all tests if DEFAULT_IGNORE == ''.
1675
1676   0.6.1 (2010-10-03)
1677       • Fix inconsistent version numbers. (Issue #21)
1678
1679   0.6.0 (2010-09-19)
1680       • Test suite reorganized and enhanced in order to check  more  failures
1681         with  fewer  test  files.   Read  the run_tests docstring for details
1682         about the syntax.
1683
1684       • Fix E225: accept print >>sys.stderr, "..." syntax.
1685
1686       • Fix E501 for lines containing multibyte  encoded  characters.  (Issue
1687         #7)
1688
1689       • Fix E221, E222, E223, E224 not detected in some cases. (Issue #16)
1690
1691       • Fix E211 to reject v = dic['a'] ['b']. (Issue #17)
1692
1693       • Exit code is always 1 if any error or warning is found. (Issue #10)
1694
1695--ignore  checks  are  now  really ignored, especially in conjunction
1696         with --count. (Issue #8)
1697
1698       • Blank lines with spaces yield W293 instead of W291:  some  developers
1699         want to ignore this warning and indent the blank lines to paste their
1700         code easily in the Python interpreter.
1701
1702       • Fix E301: do not require a blank line before an indented block.  (Is‐
1703         sue #14)
1704
1705       • Fix E203 to accept NumPy slice notation a[0, :]. (Issue #13)
1706
1707       • Performance improvements.
1708
1709       • Fix decoding and checking non-UTF8 files in Python 3.
1710
1711       • Fix E225: reject True+False when running on Python 3.
1712
1713       • Fix an exception when the line starts with an operator.
1714
1715       • Allow a new line before closing ), } or ]. (Issue #5)
1716
1717   0.5.0 (2010-02-17)
1718       • Changed  the  --count switch to print to sys.stderr and set exit code
1719         to 1 if any error or warning is found.
1720
1721       • E241 and E242 are removed from the standard checks. If  you  want  to
1722         include these checks, use switch --select=E,W. (Issue #4)
1723
1724       • Blank  line  is not mandatory before the first class method or nested
1725         function definition, even if there's a docstring. (Issue #1)
1726
1727       • Add the switch --version.
1728
1729       • Fix decoding errors with Python 3. (Issue #13 [1])
1730
1731       • Add --select option which is mirror of --ignore.
1732
1733       • Add checks E261 and E262 for spaces before inline comments.
1734
1735       • New check W604 warns about deprecated usage of backticks.
1736
1737       • New check W603 warns about the deprecated operator <>.
1738
1739       • Performance improvement, due to rewriting of E225.
1740
1741       • E225 now accepts:
1742
1743         • no whitespace after unary operator or similar. (Issue #9 [1])
1744
1745         • lambda function with argument unpacking or keyword defaults.
1746
1747       • Reserve "2 blank lines" for module-level logical blocks. (E303)
1748
1749       • Allow multi-line comments. (E302, issue #10 [1])
1750
1751   0.4.2 (2009-10-22)
1752       • Decorators on classes and class methods are OK now.
1753
1754   0.4 (2009-10-20)
1755       • Support for all versions of Python from 2.3 to 3.1.
1756
1757       • New and greatly expanded self tests.
1758
1759       • Added --count option to print the total number of  errors  and  warn‐
1760         ings.
1761
1762       • Further  improvements  to  the  handling of comments and blank lines.
1763         (Issue #1 [1] and others changes.)
1764
1765       • Check all py files in directory when passed  a  directory  (Issue  #2
1766         [1]).  This  also  prevents  an exception when traversing directories
1767         with non *.py files.
1768
1769       • E231 should allow commas to be followed by ). (Issue #3 [1])
1770
1771       • Spaces are no longer required around the equals sign for keyword  ar‐
1772         guments or default parameter values.
1773
1774       [1]  These issues refer to the previous issue tracker.
1775
1776   0.3.1 (2009-09-14)
1777       • Fixes  for  comments: do not count them when checking for blank lines
1778         between items.
1779
1780       • Added setup.py for pypi upload and easy_installability.
1781
1782   0.2 (2007-10-16)
1783       • Loads of fixes and improvements.
1784
1785   0.1 (2006-10-01)
1786       • First release.
1787
1788       • Online documentation: https://pycodestyle.pycqa.org/
1789
1790       • Source code and issue tracker: https://github.com/pycqa/pycodestyle
1791
1792       • genindex
1793
1794       • search
1795
1796       Created by Johann C. Rocholl.
1797
1798       Maintained by Florent Xicluna and Ian Lee.
1799
1800       The pycodestyle library is provided under the terms and  conditions  of
1801       the Expat license:
1802
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