3.8.0 – 2020-05-11
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Bugs Fixed
Fix logical checks which report positions out of bounds (See also GitLab!422, GitLab#635)
Fix
--exclude=.*
accidentally matching.
and..
(See also GitLab!424, GitLab#632)
Deprecations
Add deprecation message for vcs hooks (See also GitLab!420, GitLab#568)
3.8.0a2 – 2020-04-24
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Bugs Fixed
Fix
type="str"
optparse options (See also GitLab!419)
3.8.0a1 – 2020-04-24
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New Dependency Information
Remove dependency on
entrypoints
and add dependency onimportlib-metadata
(only forpython<3.8
) (See also GitLab!388, GitLab#569)Pyflakes has been updated to >= 2.2.0, < 2.3.0 (See also GitLab!417)
pycodestyle has been updated to >= 2.6.0a1, < 2.7.0 (See also GitLab!418)
Features
Add
--extend-exclude
option to add to--exclude
without overwriting (See also GitLab!315, GitLab#535)Move argument parsing from
optparse
toargparse
(See also GitLab!341Group plugin options in
--help
(See also GitLab!342, GitLab#565)Remove parsing of
verbose
from configuration files as it was not consistently applied (See also GitLab!360, GitLab#439)Remove parsing of
output_file
from configuration files as it was not consistently applied (See also GitLab!361)Resolve configuration files relative to
cwd
instead of common prefix of passed filenames. You may need to changeflake8 subproject
tocd subproject && flake8 .
(See also GitLab!363)Officially support python3.8 (See also GitLab!377)
--disable-noqa
now also disables# flake8: noqa
(See also GitLab!380, GitLab#590)Ensure that a missing file produces a
E902
error (See also GitLab!404, GitLab#600)# noqa
comments now apply to all of the lines in an explicit\
continuation or in a line continued by a multi-line string (See also GitLab!413, GitLab#375)
Bugs Fixed
Fix
--exclude=./t.py
to only matcht.py
at the top level (See also GitLab!311, GitLab#382)Fix
--show-source
when a file is indented with tabs (See also GitLab!339, GitLab#563)Fix crash when
--max-line-length
is given a non-integer (See also GitLab!341, GitLab#541)Prevent flip-flopping of
indent_char
causing extraE101
errors (See also GitLab!357, pycodestyle#886)Only enable multiprocessing when the method is
fork
fixing issues on macos with python3.8+ (See also GitLab!366, GitLab#587) (note: this fix also landed in 3.7.9)noqa
is now only handled by flake8 fixing specific-noqa. Plugins requesting this parameter will always receiveFalse
(See also GitLab!331, GitLab#552)Fix duplicate loading of plugins when invoked via
python -m flake8
(See also GitLab!388)Fix early exit when
--exit-zero
and--diff
are provided and the diff is empty (See also GitLab!391)Consistently split lines when
\f
is present when reading from stdin (See also GitLab!406, GitLab#270)
Deprecations
python setup.py flake8
(setuptools integration) is now deprecated and will be removed in a future version (See also GitLab!330, GitLab#544)type='string'
(optparse) types are deprecated, usetype=callable
(argparse) instead. Support fortype='string'
will be removed in a future version (See also GitLab!341)%default
in plugin option help text is deprecated, use%(default)s
instead. Support for%default
will be removed in a future version (See also GitLab!341)optparse-style
action='callback'
setting for options is deprecated, use argparse action classes instead. This will be removed in a future version (See also GitLab!341)