Flake8: Your Tool For Style Guide Enforcement
All users of Flake8 should read this portion of the documentation. This provides examples and documentation around Flake8 ’s assortment of options and how to specify them on the command …
Using Flake8 — flake8 7.3.0 documentation - PyCQA
Using Flake8 Flake8 can be used in many ways. A few: invoked on the command-line invoked via Python This guide will cover all of these and the nuances for using Flake8.
Invoking Flake8 — flake8 7.3.0 documentation - PyCQA
Where you simply allow the shell running in your terminal to locate Flake8. In some cases, though, you may have installed Flake8 for multiple versions of Python (e.g., Python 3.13 and Python 3.14) and …
flake8 — flake8 4.0.1 documentation - PyCQA
flake8 is a command-line utility for enforcing style consistency across Python projects. By default it includes lint checks provided by the PyFlakes project, PEP-0008 inspired style checks provided by …
Configuring Flake8 — flake8 7.3.0 documentation - PyCQA
Flake8 supports storing its configuration in your project in one of setup.cfg, tox.ini, or .flake8. Values set at the command line have highest priority, then those in the project configuration file, and finally there …
Full Listing of Options and Their Descriptions — flake8 7.3.0 ... - PyCQA
Generate information necessary to file a complete bug report for Flake8. This will pretty-print a JSON blob that should be copied and pasted into a bug report for Flake8.
Flake8 — flake8 2.5.5 documentation - PyCQA
Flake8 combines two other projects that are significant on their own: pep8 and PyFlakes. If flake8 is doing something you don’t like, it is quite likely that the problem lies in one of those other projects.
Ignoring Errors with Flake8 — flake8 3.1.1 documentation - PyCQA
Imagine a situation where we are adding Flake8 to a codebase. Let’s further imagine that with the exception of a few particularly bad files, we can add Flake8 easily and move on with our lives.
Frequently Asked Questions — flake8 7.3.0 documentation
Flake8 uses ranges for mccabe, pyflakes, and pycodestyle because each of those projects tend to add new checks in minor releases. It has been an implicit design goal of Flake8 ’s to make the list of error …
Error / Violation Codes — flake8 7.3.0 documentation - PyCQA
Flake8 and its plugins assign a code to each message that we refer to as an error code (or violation). Most plugins will list their error codes in their documentation or README.