Lesson 4
Repeated Practice Makes Perfect
Chapter 9: The PEP 8 style guide
PyCodeStyle
You can check whether your code conforms to PEP 8 with the Python command line utility pycodestyle
.
You can install this using pip install pycodestyle
.
Prepare a script (say test.py
) that does not conform to PEP 8 (for example using two spaces for indentation). Here is an example below.
guess = 5
if guess > 5:
print("Too large")
print("Try again")
else:
print("Ok")
Run pycodestyle test.py
test.py:3:3: E111 indentation is not a multiple of four
test.py:4:3: E111 indentation is not a multiple of four
test.py:6:3: E111 indentation is not a multiple of four