setuptools_pyflakes 1.1.0

About

This is a plugin for setuptools that integrates pyflakes. Once installed, “python setup.py flakes” will run pyflakes on all of the modules in your project.

Installation

With easy_install:

easy_install setuptools_pyflakes

Alternative manual installation:

tar -zxvf setuptools_pyflakes-X.Y.Z.tar.gz cd setuptools_pyflakes-X.Y.Z python setup.py install

Where X.Y.Z is a version number.

Usage

To use this plugin, you must first package your python module with setup.py and use setuptools. The former is well documented in the distutils manual:

http://docs.python.org/dist/dist.html

To use setuptools instead of distutils, just edit setup.py and change

from distutils.core import setup

to

from setuptools import setup

Then, if this plugin is installed, “python setup.py flakes” will work.

Automatically installing setuptools_pyflakes

You can make sure that anyone who uses your setup.py, and who invokes “python setup.py flakes”, automatically gets this plugin installed, by adding a setup_requires argument.:

setup_requires=[]
# setuptools_pyflakes is required to make "python setup.py flakes" work.
if 'flakes' in sys.argv[1:]:
  setup_requires.append('setuptools_pyflakes')

setup(...,
  setup_requires = setup_requires,
  ...)

References

How to distribute Python modules with Distutils:

http://docs.python.org/dist/dist.html

Setuptools documentation:

http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools

Thanks to Yannick Gingras for providing the prototype for this README.rst.