At any rate, I have a PR (#2930) that should make it pass cleanly again. On the bright side, it looks like one of the changes is 1.5 is that long unbreakable lines will get ignored by E501 so urls are safe again.
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Paul Ivanov <p...@berkeley.edu> wrote: > Nelle Varoquaux, on 2014-03-26 21:27, wrote: >> > Does anyone know why we are seeing a huge number of PEP 8 failures now? >> > It looks to me like it is a change in which modules are subject to the >> > test, or in which tests are grounds for failure. I don't know how all >> > this is set up, though. >> >> If it started very recently, it could be linked to the new release. They >> have started to make "none backward" compatible version, in the sense that >> the stylechecker is increasingly strict. It is very annoying... > > Can we not revisit (and possibly revert) the morally absolutist > PEP-8 or death position that matplotlib has taken? > > Quoting GvR (emphasis mine): > > All I want to say is, people lighten up. The style guide > can't solve all your problems. You are never going to have > all code compliant. Use the style guide when it helps, *ignore > it when it's in the way* > > And from that same email: > > Let's try to make new stdlib modules use the best style we > can think of, but limit the time spent fretting over code > that's already there. > > > The rest of the message is useful to read: > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-November/105681.html > > Another reason for not being so rigid about PEP-8 is that its a > living document. Are we really doing massive search-and-replace > changes to the codebase just to comply with a moving target? > > best, > -- > _ > / \ > A* \^ - > ,./ _.`\\ / \ > / ,--.S \/ \ > / `"~,_ \ \ > __o ? > _ \<,_ /:\ > --(_)/-(_)----.../ | \ > --------------.......J > Paul Ivanov > http://pirsquared.org > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-devel mailing list > Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel -- Thomas Caswell tcasw...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
