Magic function for pycodestyle and flake8 module in Jupyter-Lab or Notebook

Make sure you've the Python package pycodestyle, flake8 and this pycodestyle_magic.

pip install flake8 pycodestyle_magic

Flake8 and pycodestyle will discover and manage user configuration files (stored in a user's home directory or in the XDG directory inside their home directory) or project configuration files (stored in the current directory). See their respective docs for specific details on configuration file naming, syntax, and location.

Additionally, Flake8 cell magic ignores four codes by default:

• W292 - no newline at end of file; not relevant in an iPython cell
• W391 - blank line at end of file; not relevant in an iPython cell
• F401 - module imported but unused; a module may be imported in one cell and used in another
• F821 - undefined name name; a variable may be defined in one cell and used in another

Enable the magic function by using the pycodestyle_magic module in a cell

%load_ext pycodestyle_magic

use the function as first line in your cell to check compliance with pycodestyle or flake8 as such:

%%pycodestyle

or for flake8

%%flake8

If you want this compliance checking turned on by default for each cell then run this magic line function in an empty cell:

%pycodestyle_on

or for flake8

%flake8_on

You only need to call this once (observe the single %).

To turn off the auto-checking for each cell use:

%pycodestyle_off or %flake8_off

1. The option --ignore or -i will add the the named error(s) to the ignore list

Example to ignore the errors E225 and E265:

%flake8_on --ignore E225,E265

Remember to avoid spaces between declaring multiple errors.

2. With the option --max_line_length or -m the max-line-length can be customised.

Example to set the line length to 119 characters instead of the default 79:

%flake8_on --max_line_length 119

The options can be combined as well.

See notebooks in notebook directory for example use cases, as such:

Examples notebooks were slightly adapted from https://github.com/SiggyF/notebooks/blob/master/styleguide.ipynb