NAME

       pep8 - A tool to check your Python code against some of the style conventions in PEP 8.

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 according 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  <dwatson@debian.org>  and  Michael  Prokop
       <mika@debian.org>.