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. (by PyCQA)

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Posts with mentions or reviews of Flake8. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-03-18.
  • Top Tools for Static Analysis Help in Your Python Projects
    6 projects | dev.to | 18 Mar 2025
    Flake8: This tool checks for style errors and simple programming mistakes.
  • Constraints Are Good: Python's Metadata Dilemma
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Dec 2024
    I wouldn’t bet on this one. I know a lot of python package maintainers who would likely rather kill their project than to adapt to a standard they don’t like. For example see flake8’s stance on even supporting pyproject.toml files which have been the standard for years: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8/issues/234#issuecomment-8128...

    I know because I’m the one that added pyproject.toml support to mypy 3.5 years ago. Python package developers can rival Linux kernel maintainers for resistance to change.

  • Setting Up a Comprehensive Python Build Validation Pipeline in Azure DevOps
    2 projects | dev.to | 3 Oct 2024
    repos: - repo: https://github.com/psf/black rev: 22.3.0 hooks: - id: black args: [--line-length=79] - repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/isort rev: 5.10.1 hooks: - id: isort - repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8 rev: 4.0.1 hooks: - id: flake8
  • Setting up `pre-commit` in a Django project
    4 projects | dev.to | 28 Jun 2024
    # .pre-commit-config.yaml (28.06.2024) repos: - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks rev: v4.6.0 hooks: - id: trailing-whitespace - id: end-of-file-fixer - id: check-added-large-files - repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/isort rev: 5.13.2 hooks: - id: isort - repo: https://github.com/psf/black rev: 24.4.2 hooks: - id: black - repo: https://github.com/pycqa/flake8 rev: 7.1.0 hooks: - id: flake8 - repo: local hooks: - id: django-check name: Run Django Check entry: python manage.py check language: system pass_filenames: false types: [python]
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    3 projects | dev.to | 24 Apr 2024
    Automating code checks with static code analysis allows us to enforce code styling effectively. By integrating tools into our workflow, we can identify errors at an early stage, while coding instead of blocking us at the end. For instance, flake8 checks Python code for style and errors, eslint performs similar checks for JavaScript, and prettier automatically formats code to maintain consistency.
  • Enhance Your Project Quality with These Top Python Libraries
    16 projects | dev.to | 18 Mar 2024
    Flake8. This library is a wrapper around pycodestyle (PEP8), pyflakes, and Ned Batchelder’s McCabe script. It is a great toolkit for checking your code base against coding style (PEP8), programming errors (like SyntaxError, NameError, etc) and to check cyclomatic complexity.
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    2 projects | dev.to | 5 Oct 2023
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    5 projects | dev.to | 12 Jul 2023
    Flake8 combines the functionalities of the PyFlakes, pycodestyle, and McCabe libraries. It provides a streamlined approach to code linting by detecting coding errors, enforcing style conventions, and measuring code complexity.
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PyCQA/flake8 is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of Flake8 is Python.


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