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For example, this can be highly useful for automated testing of coding style conformance in your project:</p> <div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">unittest</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">pep8</span> <span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">TestCodeFormat</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">unittest</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">TestCase</span><span class="p">):</span> <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">test_pep8_conformance</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">):</span> <span class="sd">"""Test that we conform to PEP8."""</span> <span class="n">pep8style</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">pep8</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">StyleGuide</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">quiet</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">True</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="n">result</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">pep8style</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">check_files</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="s1">'file1.py'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'file2.py'</span><span class="p">])</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">assertEqual</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">result</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">total_errors</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">"Found code style errors (and warnings)."</span><span class="p">)</span> </pre></div> </div> <p>If you are using <cite>nosetests</cite> for running tests, remove <cite>quiet=True</cite> since Nose suppresses stdout.</p> <p>There’s also a shortcut for checking a single file:</p> <div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">pep8</span> <span class="n">fchecker</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">pep8</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">Checker</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'testsuite/E27.py'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">show_source</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">True</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="n">file_errors</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">fchecker</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">check_all</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"Found </span><span class="si">%s</span><span class="s2"> errors (and warnings)"</span> <span class="o">%</span> <span class="n">file_errors</span><span class="p">)</span> </pre></div> </div> </div> <div class="section" id="skip-file-header"> <h2>Skip file header<a class="headerlink" href="#skip-file-header" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <p>Another example is related to the <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/pycqa/pep8/issues/143">feature request #143</a>: skip a number of lines at the beginning and the end of a file. This use case is easy to implement through a custom wrapper for the PEP 8 library:</p> <div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="ch">#!python</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">pep8</span> <span class="n">LINES_SLICE</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">slice</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">14</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">20</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">PEP8</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">pep8</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">StyleGuide</span><span class="p">):</span> <span class="sd">"""This subclass of pep8.StyleGuide will skip the first and last lines</span> <span class="sd"> of each file."""</span> <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">input_file</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">filename</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">lines</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">None</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">expected</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">None</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">line_offset</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">):</span> <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">lines</span> <span class="ow">is</span> <span class="kc">None</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="k">assert</span> <span class="n">line_offset</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="mi">0</span> <span class="n">line_offset</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">LINES_SLICE</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">start</span> <span class="ow">or</span> <span class="mi">0</span> <span class="n">lines</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">pep8</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">readlines</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">filename</span><span class="p">)[</span><span class="n">LINES_SLICE</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="k">return</span> <span class="nb">super</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">PEP8</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">input_file</span><span class="p">(</span> <span class="n">filename</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">lines</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">lines</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">expected</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">expected</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">line_offset</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">line_offset</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">if</span> <span class="vm">__name__</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="s1">'__main__'</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">pep8style</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">PEP8</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">parse_argv</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">True</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">config_file</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">True</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="n">report</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">pep8style</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">check_files</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">report</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">total_errors</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="k">raise</span> <span class="ne">SystemExit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span> </pre></div> </div> <p>This module declares a lines’ window which skips 14 lines at the beginning and 20 lines at the end. If there’s no line to skip at the end, it could be changed with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">LINES_SLICE</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">slice(14,</span> <span class="pre">None)</span></code> for example.</p> <p>You can save it in a file and use it with the same options as the original <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pep8</span></code>.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <footer> <div class="rst-footer-buttons" role="navigation" aria-label="footer navigation"> <a href="api.html" class="btn btn-neutral float-right" title="pep8 API" accesskey="n" rel="next">Next <span class="fa fa-arrow-circle-right"></span></a> <a href="intro.html" class="btn btn-neutral" title="Introduction" accesskey="p" rel="prev"><span class="fa fa-arrow-circle-left"></span> Previous</a> </div> <hr/> <div role="contentinfo"> <p> © Copyright 2006-2016, Johann C. 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