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PyLint is known to be very customizable so I guess this should be possible...
The reason I would like PyLint to check compliance with PEP8 is because
- PyDev has much better support for PyLint than it has for PEP8.
- It's easier to have one tool doing all checks than having to use two.
I also asked this question on PyLint's mailing list at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.logilab/1039
Example of diagnostic messages from PEP8 which I don't get from PyLint:
- E203 whitespace before ':'
- E225 missing whitespace around operator
- E251 no spaces around keyword / parameter equals
- E301 expected 1 blank line, found 0
- E303 too many blank lines
- E501 line too long (90 characters)
- W291 trailing whitespace
- W292 no newline at end of file
- W293 blank line contains whitespace
E203 is not yet supported in pylint AFAIK
E225 is C0322 / C0323
E251 shoult be C0322/C0323, but I'm not sure that pylint does not special case parameters and allows lack of space there
E301, E303 are not supported AFAIK
E501 is C0301 and you can configure the length in your pylintrc
W291, W292 and W203 are not supported AFAIK.
It would be nice if you could report these as wanted features on http://www.logilab.org/project/pylint