Installer autopep8 avec Homebrew, apt, pacman

Liens du projet

• Page d'accueil
• Docs amont
• Page du gestionnaire de paquets

Commandes et alias

• autopep8

Historique du projet

The official GitHub repository was created in December 2010. The README describes autopep8 as a tool that automatically formats Python code to conform to PEP 8, using pycodestyle to determine which parts need formatting.

The project grew around pycodestyle error codes: the README lists many E and W codes autopep8 can fix, plus conservative defaults and more aggressive modes for changes that may affect semantics.

Historique d'adoption

autopep8 spread through Python packaging and editor integrations as a command-line formatter. The batch input lists Homebrew plus Debian/Ubuntu and Arch packages, while the official README points users to pip, PyPI, GitHub, and pre-commit hook usage.

Its GitHub metadata shows thousands of stars and hundreds of forks, consistent with long-running use in Python developer workflows even as opinionated formatters became more prominent later.

Modes d'utilisation

Common usage is autopep8 --in-place with one or more --aggressive flags, or --diff for review. The README also documents module use through fix_code(), recursive operation, parallel jobs, line ranges, pre-commit integration, and pyproject.toml support.

Configuration can come from a global pycodestyle file, project files such as setup.cfg, tox.ini, .pep8, and .flake8, or pyproject.toml under [tool.autopep8], which takes precedence over other configuration files.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

autopep8 is useful to package nerds because it bridges Python packaging, linter configuration, editor formatting, and pre-commit automation without imposing a single style regime. Its behavior is legible in terms of pycodestyle codes, which makes distro and CI behavior easier to explain than opaque formatter output.

Chronologie

• 2010: hhatto/autopep8 GitHub repository created.
• 2010s: autopep8 becomes a common PEP 8 cleanup command distributed through PyPI and OS package managers.
• 2020s: autopep8 continues supporting pyproject.toml, pre-commit, modern Python versions, and pycodestyle-based fixes.

Related projects

• pycodestyle supplies the style diagnostics autopep8 uses.
• flake8 and pep8-style configuration files influence autopep8 configuration discovery.
• Black, yapf, docformatter, and eradicate are adjacent Python formatting or cleanup tools.

Sources

• https://api.github.com/repos/hhatto/autopep8
• https://github.com/hhatto/autopep8#readme
• source_facts.package-manager