spyder-autopep8

Important Notes

• This plugin is no longer maintained but you can still use with Spyder 3 (see below).
• This plugin is incompatible with Spyder 4. However, auto-formatting was added to Spyder 4.2.0 (released in November 2020).
• To auto-format a file or selection in Spyder 4.2.0, you need to go to the menu Source > Format file or selection or press the shortcut Ctrl + Alt + I (Cmd + Alt + I in macOS).

Description

This is a plugin to run the Autopep8 <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/autopep8>_ Python linter from within the Python IDE Spyder <https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder>_ version 3.

Requirements

::

spyder==3 autopep8

Install instructions

See https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/wiki/User-plugins. You can only install this plugin from source and with any version of Spyder 3.

Usage

Press Shift+F8 (default) to run autopep8 on the current file or go to Source > Run autopep8 code autoformatting.

If some text is selected, autopep8 will run on this text only.

Informations about the execution will be displayed in the statusbar.

Screenshot

Autopep8 preferences:

.. image:: img_src/screenshot_preferences.png