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Pro Integration with build tools like tox
Project-level settings for flake8 are in the tox settings file. It is trivial to run flake8 inside setup.py or pavement.py.
Pro Allows usage of and writing of plugins
Flake8 has the ability to run thrid-party plugins, including plugins you can write yourself. Here you can find a few useful plugins.
Pro Easy to ignore files and lines
Add "noqa" comments to files and lines to skip processing. Code comments make it easy to find and review exceptions with grep.
Pro Wraps multiple analysis tools
Flake8 is a wrapper around PyFlakes, pep8, and McCabe Complexity analysis.