flake8 Command Examples

Check the style and quality of Python code. More information: https://flake8.pycqa.org/.

• Lint a file or directory recursively:

flake8 {{path/to/file_or_directory}}

• Lint a file or directory recursively and show the line on which each error occurred:

flake8 --show-source {{path/to/file_or_directory}}

• Lint a file or directory recursively and ignore a list of rules. (All available rules can be found at flake8rules.com):

flake8 --ignore {{rule1,rule2}} {{path/to/file_or_directory}}

• Lint a file or directory recursively but exclude files matching the given globs or substrings:

flake8 --exclude {{substring1,glob2}} {{path/to/file_or_directory}}