How to write a pep8 configuration (pep8.rc) file?

Question

I found the documentation for pep8 but wasn\'t able to understand how to write these. I couldn\'t even find any examples with options other than setting max-line-length and igno

Answer 1

The preferred way is to use a setup.cfg in the top-level of the project (.cfg has the same syntax as a .ini file), which should contain a [pep8] section. For example:

[pep8]
ignore = E226,E302,E41
max-line-length = 160

Note: the error codes are defined in the pep8 docs.

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• autopep8 find this same [pep8] section as pep8.
• flake8 needs a [flake8] section in setup.cfg.
• yapf looks for a [yapf] section in setup.cfg.