How can I configure Pylint to check all things PEP8 checks?

Question

Searching for an answer on Pylint's mailing list brings no interesting results.

Pylint is known to be very customizable, so I guess this should be possible...

The reason I would like Pylint to check compliance with PEP8 is because

• PyDev has much better support for Pylint than it has for PEP8.
• It's easier to have one tool doing all checks than having to use two.

I also asked this question on Pylint's mailing list at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.logilab/1039

Example of diagnostic messages from PEP8 which I don't get from Pylint:

• E203 whitespace before ':'
• E225 missing whitespace around operator
• E251 no spaces around keyword / parameter equals
• E301 expected 1 blank line, found 0
• E303 too many blank lines
• E501 line too long (90 characters)
• W291 trailing whitespace
• W292 no newline at end of file
• W293 blank line contains whitespace

Adventitious

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Answer 1

• E203 is not yet supported in Pylint AFAIK
• E225 is C0322 / C0323
• E251 should be C0322/C0323, but I'm not sure that Pylint does not special case parameters and allows lack of space there
• E301, E303 are not supported AFAIK
• E501 is C0301 and you can configure the length in your pylintrc
• W291, W292 and W203 are not supported AFAIK.

It would be nice if you could report these as desired features over here.

Invasive

Regarding C0322/3, in version 0.25.1, PyLint does have a 'special case' that allows there to be no spaces before/after the assignment operator for default and keyword arguments, but it doesn't complain if there is a space either side of the operator, which it probably should to be strictly PEP 8-compliant. – Maria

Alex, are there any plans to support all PEP8 features? I'm asking as there was no activity in ticket #82519 since it was created almost a year ago... – Adventitious

The official position is to use pycodestyle (former pep8 tool) for that. See github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/1970 – Zindman