SYNOPSIS
pep8 [options] input ...OPTIONS
- --version
- show program's version number and exit
- -h, --help
- show this help message and exit
- -v, --verbose
- print status messages, or debug with -vv
- -q, --quiet
- report only file names, or nothing with -qq
- --exclude=patterns
- exclude files or directories which match these comma separated patterns (default: .svn,CVS,.bzr,.hg,.git,__pycache__)
- --filename=patterns
- when parsing directories, only check filenames matching these comma separated patterns (default: *.py)
- --select=errors
- select errors and warning (e.g. E,W6)
- --ignore=errors
- skip errors and warnings (e.g. E4,W)
- --first
- show first occurrence of each error
- -r, --repeat
- (obsolete) show all occurrences of the same error
- --show-source
- show source code for each error
- --show-pep8
- show text of PEP 8 for each error (implies --first)
- --statistics
- count errors and warnings
- --count
- print total number of errors and warnings to standard error and set exit code to 1 if total is not null
- --max-line-length=n
- set maximum allowed line length (default: 79)
- --hang-closing
- hang closing bracket instead of matching indentation of opening bracket's line
- --format=format
- set the error format [default|pylint|<custom>]
- --diff
- report only lines changed accoring to the unified diff received on STDIN
- --benchmark
- measure processing speed
- --config=path
- user config file location (default: $HOME/.config/pep8)
USAGE EXAMPLES
- Display how often each error was found:
-
% pep8 --statistics -qq example/lib/
- Show source code and more verbose explanation from PEP 8:
-
% pep8 --show-source --show-pep8 foo.py
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by David Watson <[email protected]> and Michael Prokop <[email protected]>.