PyCQA/pycodestyle

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Simple Python style checker in one Python file

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Last GitHub push: Aug 16, 2026
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89 open issues indexed

E721: mistake due to isidentifier() not considering '.' Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

PyCQA/pycodestyle#662 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 7, 2017
Feature Request: Ability to Specify Ranges of Lines to Check Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

PyCQA/pycodestyle#659 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 16, 2017
E226: pycodestyle incorrectly warns about missing whitespace around operators Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

PyCQA/pycodestyle#658 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 15, 2017
Pycodestyle complains when having two blank lines between imports and classes with a comment inbetween. Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PyCQA/pycodestyle#652 · 8 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jun 2, 2017
E111: Assumes 4 space indent. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PyCQA/pycodestyle#636 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 27, 2017
Check if dunder variables are defined *after* imports Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PyCQA/pycodestyle#615 · 7 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 26, 2017
Nested indents are not correctly validated Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PyCQA/pycodestyle#604 · Opened Dec 5, 2016
E101: improve based on context Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

PyCQA/pycodestyle#600 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 14, 2016
[feature request] detect space after class definition Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PyCQA/pycodestyle#590 · 11 comments · Opened Oct 31, 2016
E261: ignores tab/space mix Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 42/100

PyCQA/pycodestyle#582 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 26, 2016
spaces before attribute access not reported as violation Open

needs patch

PyCQA/pycodestyle#553 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 24, 2016
Update (remove?) the GitHub project wiki Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

PyCQA/pycodestyle#531 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 3, 2016
Convert existing unit tests from unittest to pytest Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PyCQA/pycodestyle#526 · 11 comments · Opened Jun 2, 2016
Some better handling of error in the configuration file Open

needs patch

PyCQA/pycodestyle#506 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 18, 2016
PEP 8 Inspection over-generalizes blank lines around functions Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

PyCQA/pycodestyle#457 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 30, 2015
Blank lines between methods definitions Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PyCQA/pycodestyle#438 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 16, 2015
if clause doesn't accept parenthesis-less visual indent while if statement accepts Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

PyCQA/pycodestyle#434 · Opened Sep 3, 2015
W503: % is not considered to be a binary operator for line breaks Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PyCQA/pycodestyle#422 · 15 comments · Opened Jul 15, 2015
E122: false positive: continuation line missing indentation or outdented Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

PyCQA/pycodestyle#408 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 22, 2015
E501: strings links should allow “introduction” Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

PyCQA/pycodestyle#406 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 18, 2015
Consistent use of "return None" in functions Open

feature needs patch

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PyCQA/pycodestyle#399 · 4 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Apr 7, 2015
E128: confusion with variable-length encoding (like UTF-8) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PyCQA/pycodestyle#391 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 12, 2015
cannot combine `--select` and `--ignore` Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PyCQA/pycodestyle#390 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 11, 2015
W191: erroneously checks indentation within triple-quoted strings Open

needs patch

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PyCQA/pycodestyle#376 · 16 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Feb 1, 2015
E203: False positive "whitespace before ':' " on list slice. Open

needs patch

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

PyCQA/pycodestyle#373 · 24 comments · 68 reactions · Opened Jan 21, 2015
E122: Suspicious error for arguments of method called on multiline glued string literal Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PyCQA/pycodestyle#372 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 19, 2015
No warning about missing space between closing parenthesis and keyword Open

PyCQA/pycodestyle#371 · 13 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 16, 2015
E228: Check only detects missing whitespace around % when both sides are missing Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

PyCQA/pycodestyle#370 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 9, 2015
defined config overwritten by config further up directory tree Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 52/100

PyCQA/pycodestyle#368 · 6 comments · Opened Jan 8, 2015
E303: Does not report, that a blank line between classes is needed, if they're defined inside an if statement Open

PyCQA/pycodestyle#366 · 21 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 3, 2015
Add error on imports inside class definitions Open

extension feature undecided

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PyCQA/pycodestyle#351 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 15, 2014
Exclusion takes preference over inclusion of a directory Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PyCQA/pycodestyle#348 · Opened Dec 14, 2014
E211: not detected in line with print statement/function Open

undecided

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PyCQA/pycodestyle#338 · 7 comments · Opened Oct 17, 2014
E713: false negatives Open

PyCQA/pycodestyle#334 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 27, 2014
False negative for extraneous whitespace around colon Open

feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PyCQA/pycodestyle#321 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 27, 2014
E251: triggers on line continuations Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

PyCQA/pycodestyle#301 · 20 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Jun 9, 2014
Missing E133 test suite and E131 in E12 test suite Open

needs patch

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

PyCQA/pycodestyle#293 · 5 comments · Opened May 26, 2014
E226: 'missing whitespace' introspection issue Open

opinion

PyCQA/pycodestyle#248 · 11 comments · 3 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 11, 2013
E701, E302: allowing one-liners for classes Open

feature undecided

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PyCQA/pycodestyle#231 · 8 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Sep 27, 2013

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