---
id: pycodestyle
version: "2.14.0"
license: MIT
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: aging
---

# pycodestyle — Python style guide checker

License: permissive · Maintenance: aging · Popularity: top 1,000 on PyPI

## Install

pip install pycodestyle
uv add pycodestyle
poetry add pycodestyle

## Description

pycodestyle (formerly called pep8) - Python style guide checker
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pycodestyle is a tool to check your Python code against some of the style
conventions in `PEP 8`_.

.. _PEP 8: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/

.. note::

    This package used to be called ``pep8`` but was renamed to ``pycodestyle``
    to reduce confusion. Further discussion can be found `in the issue where
    Guido requested this...

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