[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: add pep8 as the python code style guidelines

[Bruce Richardson]

On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 03:57:15PM +0100, John McNamara wrote:
> Added PEP8 to the DPDK Coding Style guidelines to cover Python
> contributions to DPDK.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara at intel.com>
> ---
> v2: fixed section level.
> 
> 
>  doc/guides/contributing/coding_style.rst | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/contributing/coding_style.rst b/doc/guides/contributing/coding_style.rst
> index ad1392d..1eb67f3 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/contributing/coding_style.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/contributing/coding_style.rst
> @@ -685,3 +685,11 @@ Control Statements
>                   usage();
>                   /* NOTREACHED */
>           }
> +
> +
> +Python Code
> +-----------
> +
> +All python code should be compliant with `PEP8 (Style Guide for Python Code) <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/>`_.
> +
> +The ``pep8`` tool can be used for testing compliance with the guidelines.
> -- 
Yep, I think this would be good to have, especially since there is a nice
public tool to help ensure people are compliant with this. Even though all
existing code is not (yet) compliant no reason new code shouldn't be.

Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>