[Buildroot] [PATCH] docs/manual: PEP8 coding style for Python scripts

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Ricardo" == Ricardo Martincoski <ricardo.martincoski at gmail.com> writes:

 > The advantages of using a pre-existing coding style instead of creating
 > our own are:
 > - documenting on the manual takes a single sentence;
 > - there are automatic tools to help during development/review.

 > So document that PEP8 recommendation should be followed.

Seems sensible to me. Committed, thanks.

 > Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be>
 > Cc: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian at gmail.com>
 > Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49 at gmail.com>
 > Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire at nokia.com>
 > Signed-off-by: Ricardo Martincoski <ricardo.martincoski at gmail.com>
 > ---
 > Here is the sentence I didn't add:
 > The use of https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pycodestyle[Python style guide checker]
 > is recommended before submitting new scripts.

 > I mentioned in a thread the tool pep8/pycodestyle
 > From https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pycodestyle :
 > "This package used to be called pep8 but was renamed to pycodestyle to
 > reduce confusion"
 > Old url: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pep8

 > Also Thomas DS mentioned the tool flake8 that seems to me to group:
 > pycodestyle + pyflakes + mccabe
 > http://flake8.pycqa.org/en/latest/

Ok. We don't get new python scripts that often, so it probably isn't a
huge deal.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard