Re: automated pep8 reformatter ?

2011-04-14 Thread Andrea Crotti
James Mills writes: > Does anyone know of a tool that will help with > reformatting badly written code to be pep8 compliant ? > > a 2to3 for pep8 ? > What I daily and with great happiness use is flymake-mode in emacs. Combined with pylint, pep8 and pychecker I can see while I'm programming all t

Re: automated pep8 reformatter ?

2011-04-13 Thread James Mills
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > Most of those don't have sensible automated responses. There aren't good > automatic answers to “where should this line of code be broken to fit > within 80 columns?” or “where should this end-line comment go instead?”. And of course you are qu

Re: automated pep8 reformatter ?

2011-04-13 Thread Ben Finney
James Mills writes: > What I really want is to fix up common "poor" (IHMO) coding styles > in code that I have to maintain/review/etc. Things like: > * Lines longer than 80 characters > * Comments tacked on to the end of statements/expressions > * Use of ' vs. " > * More liberal use of Whitespace

Re: automated pep8 reformatter ?

2011-04-13 Thread James Mills
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > A step forward might be the ‘reindent.py’ program included with the > Python distribution. I have tried to use this tool - but it lacks certain features. Maybe I could use this as a starting point in writing such a tool :) What I really want

Re: automated pep8 reformatter ?

2011-04-13 Thread Ben Finney
James Mills writes: > Does anyone know of a tool that will help with reformatting badly > written code to be pep8 compliant ? A step forward might be the ‘reindent.py’ program included with the Python distribution. Many PEP 8 violations can't be automatically fixed, they require the programmer

Re: automated pep8 reformatter ?

2011-04-13 Thread James Mills
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:47 AM, James Mills wrote: > Does anyone know of a tool that will help with > reformatting badly written code to be pep8 compliant ? > > a 2to3 for pep8 ? In case there is no such tool (And I don't have the time to write one) I've found this to be really useful (so far):

automated pep8 reformatter ?

2011-04-13 Thread James Mills
Does anyone know of a tool that will help with reformatting badly written code to be pep8 compliant ? a 2to3 for pep8 ? cheers James -- -- James Mills -- -- "Problems are solved by method" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list