On 25 July 2013 16:58, Bináris <[email protected]> wrote:

> For instance, I don't leave a space after # in an inline comment in order
> to fit in 80 characters. The bot will notice this and put the space,
> therefore 80 chars are exceeded, and the bot will break the comment or put
> it into a separate line, which decreases readability. Or how does it work
> at all?


The 'bot' checks the change (or rather: the code base after applying the
change) by running pep8 [1], using the parameters we choose (so we can say
'ignore line length'). If this raises any errors, it will set Verified -2,
which prevents the patch from being merged.

[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pep8
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