Python style adhered to

[mikebentley15]

We would like to use pylint to evaluate how our code is doing stylistically. If there are rules we do not want to require, then we should create a pylint.rc file and create our own standard.

Ideally, if we find that we can adhere to all of the rules (after modifying the ones we want of course), then we could add the pylint check to the continuous integration server to enforce coding standards within python. This may or may not be doable.