By Just a quick post to let you know that I discarded my vim-pep8 and
vim-pyflakes Vim plugins yesterday in favor of
vim-flake8.
As you may know, PyFlakes is a static analysis tool that lets you catch static
programming errors when you write them, not when you run into them at runtime.
And pep8 is a Python style checking tool that enforces
PEP8 guidelines on your code.
Flake8, though, seems to be a much better option to use these days. It integrates both of PEP8 and PyFlakes and even combines it with a cyclomatic complexity checker (which is irrelevant for the Vim plugin, by the way). To install Flake8, simply use:
$ pip install flake8
After installing the plugin in Vim, you can add the following command to your
.vimrc file to have it executed after every save of a Python source file.
autocmd BufWritePost *.py call Flake8()
To avoid specific error messages from being reported, put a # noqa comment at
the end of that line.
Installation ¶
Assuming you already use vim-pathogen
(which you really should), you can simply install the plugin by cloning the
repository into the ~/.vim/bundle
folder.