Flake8 (Pycodestyle, McCabe, pyflakes)

Flake8

Flake8 is a code quality checker for Python that combines the features of Pycodestyle, McCabe, and pyflakes to provide a comprehensive tool for checking your code against style conventions, complexity, and potential errors.

There are also plugins available for Flake8 that extend its functionality to include additional checks and features. Such are:

• pep8-naming for checking naming conventions
• flake8-docstrings for checking docstrings
• flake8-bugbear for additional checks beyond PEP 8
• flake8-mypy for type checking with Mypy

Beofre commiting you code or putting it online, just run flake8 to check for any issues.

Installing Flake8

You can install Flake8 using pip:

pip install flake8
# or
conda install flake8

Checking Code

You can check your Python code using Flake8 by running the following command:

flake8 your_file.py