flake8-author 1.2.0

Installation

Install from PyPI using pip:

$ pip install flake8-author

The extension will be activated automatically by flake8. You can verify that it has been loaded by inspecting the flake8 --version string.

$ flake8 --version
3.8.4 (author: 1.2.0, ...) CPython 3.8.6 on Darwin

Error Codes

This extension adds three new error codes (using the A40 prefix):

• A400: a module-level __author__ attribute is required

• A401: __author__ attributes are not allowed

• A402: __author__ attribute value does not match pattern

Configuration

Configuration values are specified in the [flake8] section of your config file or as command line arguments (e.g. --author-attribute=required).

• author-attribute: “optional”, “required”, “forbidden” (default: optional)

• author-pattern: __author__ validation re pattern (default: '')

1.2.0 (2020-10-12)

• Drop Python 3.5 support and add version 3.8. and 3.9.

• Minor documentation improvements.

1.1.4 (2017-07-29)

• Minor code and packaging cleanup.

1.1.3 (2017-07-28)

• Drop the setup_requires dependency on flake8.

1.1.2 (2017-01-12)

• Only apply the author regular expression pattern check when a pattern has actually been configured.

1.1.1 (2016-11-06)

• Fix configuration file parsing for flake8 3.0+.

1.1.0 (2016-08-15)

• Support flake8 3.0.0 (required for development)

1.0.2 (2016-06-02)

• Support flake8 version 2.6.0

• Drop test dependency on pytest (development only)

1.0.1 (2016-05-11)

• Fixed parser validation for configuration-based options

1.0.0 (2016-04-30)

• Initial release