PyCharm and external lint tools
PyCharm already has a number of features present in various tools to lint/check your source code with, but offers a way to hook up external tools. Under File > Settings
is a section called IDE Settings
. One of the headings here is called External Tools
. Select this heading and then press the Add...
button on the right hand pane to configure a new external tool.
In the Edit Tool
window that now appeared fill in a name, e.g. PEP8
and a group name Lint
and add a description. Next point the Program
to the location of the pep8.exe
executable, e.g. C:\Python27\Scripts\pep8.exe
. For Parameters
you need to use $FilePath
and Working directory
should be filled in by default. Once done, you can close it by pressing the OK
button.
Now, pyflakes has no .exe or .bat file to accompany it. You will need to add a pyflakes.bat in your Scripts
directory inside Python with the following contents:
@echo off rem Use python to execute the python script having the same name as this batch rem file, but without any extension, located in the same directory as this rem batch file python "%~dpn0" %*
Within PyCharm you follow largely the same settings as for pep8, however make sure to point to the batch file of pyflakes under Program
. Close the external tools configuration windows by clicking OK
twice. Under the menu heading Tools
you should see an submenu heading Lint
which, in turn, should contain two menu items: PEP8 and Pyflakes.
Now open a Python file, go to Tools > Lint > PEP8
and you should get output like the following in your Run (4) window:
D:\Python26\Scripts\pep8.exe D:\pprojects\babel\babel\tests\__init__.py D:\pprojects\babel\babel\tests\__init__.py:16:1: E302 expected 2 blank lines, found 1 Process finished with exit code 1
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