Unfortunately, there's nothing that short that serves as an example. There is some documentation around building a plugin, though: http://flake8.pycqa.org/en/latest/plugin-development/index.html

On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 11:09 AM oscar anomnihe oscaranomnihe@gmail.com wrote:

Thanks Ian,

Is there a short sample (one or two lines) code that could make your explanation clearer to me. I will highly appreciate that.

Regard Oscar Sent from my iPhone

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On 5 May 2019, at 4:54 PM, Ian Stapleton Cordasco graffatcolmingov@gmail.com wrote:

Flake8 allows you to create a plugin that accepts the parameter "lines" which will provide you with a list of strings representing all of the lines in the file (including empty/blank lines). You can then call "len(lines)" and return an violation if that exceeds 500.

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On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 6:47 PM oscar anomnihe oscaranomnihe@gmail.com wrote:

Good day,

How can I get flakes8 plugin to yell at me when I exceed 500 lines of code(not individual lines)? I need it to help me not exceed 500 lines of code. Kindly advice

Regards

Oscar

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Hi Oscar,

Just to echo what the others have said, yes this is doable with a plugin that checks the `lines` parameter.

Over the last year or so I've been working on a Flake8 plugin. I used Ian's documentation for plugin development **plus** I referred a lot to flake8-author (https://github.com/jparise/flake8-author/) a small plugin that I found.

My plugin uses both lines and AST passed from Flake8 - here https://github.com/jamescooke/flake8-aaa/blob/master/src/flake8_aaa/checker.... you can see the `Checker.__init__()` has the `lines` parameter Ian mentioned. This means that Flake8 passes the lines in each file it checks when initialising the class. That will then allow you to build a `run()` function to count those lines and raise errors as required.

I also found that pytest-flake8dir (https://github.com/adamchainz/pytest-flake8dir) was helpful when I was getting started, although I don't use it any more.

Hope that's helpful.

Cheers,

James

On Sun, 5 May 2019, at 5:42 PM, oscar anomnihe wrote:

Thanks so much.

Sent from my iPhone

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On 5 May 2019, at 5:20 PM, Ian Stapleton Cordasco graffatcolmingov@gmail.com wrote:

Unfortunately, there's nothing that short that serves as an example. There is some documentation around building a plugin, though: http://flake8.pycqa.org/en/latest/plugin-development/index.html

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On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 11:09 AM oscar anomnihe oscaranomnihe@gmail.com wrote:

Thanks Ian,

Is there a short sample (one or two lines) code that could make your explanation clearer to me. I will highly appreciate that.

Regard Oscar Sent from my iPhone

...

On 5 May 2019, at 4:54 PM, Ian Stapleton Cordasco graffatcolmingov@gmail.com wrote:

Flake8 allows you to create a plugin that accepts the parameter "lines" which will provide you with a list of strings representing all of the lines in the file (including empty/blank lines). You can then call "len(lines)" and return an violation if that exceeds 500.

...

On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 6:47 PM oscar anomnihe oscaranomnihe@gmail.com wrote:

Good day,

How can I get flakes8 plugin to yell at me when I exceed 500 lines of code(not individual lines)? I need it to help me not exceed 500 lines of code. Kindly advice

Regards

Oscar

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