Cheesecake now including PEP8 checks

The inclusion actually happened a couple of weeks ago. I saw Johann Rocholl's message on conp.lang.python.announce where he talked about his pep8.py module -- a tool which checks Python modules against some of the style conventions in PEP8.

Here's a sample output of running pep8.py against one of the modules in the Cheesecake project. By default, pep8 reports only the first occurrence of the error or warning. The numbers after the file name represent the line and column where the error/warning occurred:

$ python pep8.py logger.py
logger.py:1:11: E401 multiple imports on one line
logger.py:7:23: W291 trailing whitespace
logger.py:8:5: E301 expected 1 blank line, found 0
logger.py:40:33: W602 deprecated form of raising exception
logger.py:60:1: E302 expected 2 blank lines, found 1
logger.py:114:80: E501 line too long (85 characters)

If you want to see all occurrences, use the --repeat flag.

If you just want to see how many lines in a given file have PEP8-related errors/warnings, use the --statistics flag, along with -qq, which quiets the default output:

$ python pep8.py logger.py --statistics -qq
3       E301 expected 1 blank line, found 0
4       E302 expected 2 blank lines, found 1
1       E401 multiple imports on one line
1       E501 line too long (85 characters)
40      W291 trailing whitespace
1       W602 deprecated form of raising exception

You can also pass multiple file and directory names to pep8.py, and it will give you an overall line count when you use the --statistics flag.

So now cheesecake_index.py includes a check for PEP8 compatibility as part of the 'code kwalitee' index. To compute the PEP8 score, it only looks at types of errors and warnings, not at the line count for each type. It subtracts 1 from the code kwalitee score for each warning type reported by pep8, and 2 for each error type reported. Johann told me he'll try to come up with a scoring scheme within the pep8 module, so when that's ready I'll just use it instead of my ad-hoc one. Kudos to Johann for creating a very useful module.