[utah-devel] Python coding standards

[Chris Johnston]

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Greetings,

For most of our projects we are using the PEP8 Python coding standard.
One great tool for checking your code is flake8 [1]. Flake8 currently
isn't available in the Ubuntu repositories, and won't be until atleast
the next version of flake8 is released. In the meantime, I have
created a PPA and uploaded the flake8 package to it. To install flake8
on your machine (supports Precise and newer):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chrisjohnston/flake8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-flake8

To use flake8 just run:

flake8 [FILENAME]

or

flake8 [DIRECTORY]

Flake8 also can check your code complexity using McCabe's code
complexity script by running:

flake8 --max-complexity X [FILE OR FOLDER NAME]  # Where X is the max
complexity that you would like your code to have.

There are also some other cool features that you can learn about on
the flake8 page [2].

[1] https://bitbucket.org/tarek/flake8/wiki/Home
[2] https://bitbucket.org/tarek/flake8/overview

cJ

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Respectfully,

Chris Johnston
chrisjohnston at ubuntu.com
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