[openstack-dev] migration to flake8

Davanum Srinivas davanum at gmail.com
Thu Apr 4 16:56:57 UTC 2013


Monty,

+1 from me. thanks for championing this.

-- dims

On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Monty Taylor <mordred at inaugust.com> wrote:

> Hey all!
>
> I was going to chat with folks about this at the summit, but it seems to
> be gaining momentum anyway, so there may not be a lot of pushback.
>
> Proposal:
>
> Replace pep8 and pyflakes and pylint and hacking.py in our testing with
> flake8
>
> Rationale:
>
> flake8 is the new pluggable hotness for this sort of thing. Out of the
> box it runs pep8 and pyflakes. The combo of those two winds up being
> very consistent and easy to deal with, so the extra goodness we get from
> pylint isn't really needed anymore. pyflakes regularly catches actual
> bugs for me, so rather than being just more style stuff, I'm pretty
> pleased with it as a useful bit of testing. It's also totally possible
> and easy to write pyflakes clean code.
>
> flake8 supports reading options from tox.ini, which we already have in
> our trees - even if you aren't using tox to run it. So we can set
> project options easily (like ignore=E125) and just running flake8 from
> the command line - or inside of vim/emacs - will work with the right
> settings.
>
> pyflakes issues show up prefixed by "F" and each one can be ignored now
> just like with pep8.
>
> flake8 also supports configurable additions to builtins, which lets us
> deal with the normal pyflakes issue with how we do gettext.
>
> I've also taken hacking.py from nova and turned it into a flake8 plugin,
> which means we can use that without copying it around. The hacking
> plugin is in openstack-dev/hacking in gerrit. If you install it, it will
> inject into the flake8 workflow and show its errors prefixed with "H".
>
> If there is a massive trainwreck on a line and pyflakes/hacking just
> can't deal with reality, you can add a # noqa tag to the line and it'll
> be skipped. We should probably be very limited in our usage of those.
>
> End result: no need for wrapper scripts around pep8, pyflakes or pylint.
> And a single, easy to deal with static-analysis check.
>
> Several of the infra projects have switched already, Maru just put up a
> quantum patch and I've got a ceilometer patch up for the switch. Patches
> for everyone else should be super easy.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Monty
>
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