[Buildroot] [RFC] Adopt a coding style for Python scripts

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 20-04-17 09:17, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 14:00:53 -0300, Ricardo Martincoski wrote:
> 
>>> On 14-04-17 01:44, Ricardo Martincoski wrote:  
>>>> D) adopt the recommendation PEP8 [1] as coding style and the tool pep8 [2] as
>>>>    automatic checker for coding style before submitting patches;
>>>>    It checks for a subset of the recommendation (e.g. file naming is not
>>>>    checked).  
>>>
>>>  For me, option D is great. It can also be added to the checkpackage script.  
>>
>> I can look into this integration.
> 
> I have nothing against option (D), but I'm wondering what is the
> relation with the checkpackage script. checkpackage checks packages,
> written in Kconfig and Make, what is the relation with complying with
> the Python PEP8 recommendation?

 Actually, check-package checks files, not packages. It looks at the filename
and if it is one it recognizes, it runs the appropriate checker on it. So a
checker that applies to files ending with .py could certainly be added.

 Regards,
 Arnout

> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Thomas
> 

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