spyder-autopep8

Important Notes

• This plugin is no longer maintained but you can still use with Spyder 3 (see below).
• This plugin is incompatible with Spyder 4. However, auto-formatting was added to Spyder 4.2.0 (released in November 2020).
• To auto-format a file or selection in Spyder 4.2.0, you need to go to the menu Source > Format file or selection or press the shortcut Ctrl + Alt + I (Cmd + Alt + I in macOS).

Description

This is a plugin to run the Autopep8 Python linter from within the Python IDE Spyder version 3.

Requirements

spyder==3
autopep8

Install instructions

See https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/wiki/User-plugins. You can only install this plugin from source and with any version of Spyder 3.

Usage

Press Shift+F8 (default) to run autopep8 on the current file or go to Source > Run autopep8 code autoformatting.

If some text is selected, autopep8 will run on this text only.

Informations about the execution will be displayed in the statusbar.

Screenshot

Autopep8 preferences: