autopep8 VS pydocstyle

Compare autopep8 vs pydocstyle and see what are their differences.

autopep8

A tool that automatically formats Python code to conform to the PEP 8 style guide. (by hhatto)

pydocstyle

docstring style checker (by PyCQA)
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autopep8 pydocstyle
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4,502 1,106
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8.0 6.1
5 days ago 5 months ago
Python Python
MIT License MIT License
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autopep8

Posts with mentions or reviews of autopep8. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-18.

pydocstyle

Posts with mentions or reviews of pydocstyle. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-13.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing autopep8 and pydocstyle you can also consider the following projects:

black - The uncompromising Python code formatter

Flake8 - flake8 is a python tool that glues together pycodestyle, pyflakes, mccabe, and third-party plugins to check the style and quality of some python code.

Pylint - It's not just a linter that annoys you!

autoflake - Removes unused imports and unused variables as reported by pyflakes

black - The uncompromising Python code formatter [Moved to: https://github.com/psf/black]

pycodestyle - Simple Python style checker in one Python file

yapf - A formatter for Python files

isort - A Python utility / library to sort imports.

prettier - Prettier is an opinionated code formatter.

mkdocstrings - :blue_book: Automatic documentation from sources, for MkDocs.

pyment - Format and convert Python docstrings and generates patches