autopep8 VS pyflakes

Compare autopep8 vs pyflakes and see what are their differences.

autopep8

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

pyflakes

A simple program which checks Python source files for errors (by PyCQA)
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autopep8 pyflakes
18 5
4,517 1,340
- 1.0%
8.0 5.3
about 1 month ago about 2 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.

pyflakes

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

What are some alternatives?

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

black - The uncompromising Python code formatter

pycodestyle - Simple Python style checker in one Python file

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!

pylama - Code audit tool for python.

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

pydocstyle - docstring style checker

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

isort - A Python utility / library to sort imports.

mccabe - McCabe complexity checker for Python