On Apr 14, 2017 9:12 AM, "Stefan van der Walt" <stefanv@berkeley.edu> wrote: On Fri, Apr 14, 2017, at 00:14, Nathaniel Smith wrote:

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 3:28 PM, Nelle Varoquaux <nelle.varoquaux@gmail.com> wrote:

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Hello,

For style-changes (such as pep8/flake8) elements, I find that very often new contributors don't know they can configure their text editors to display the pep8/pyflakes violations. Very often, it is a question of mentoring them through the process of configuring their text editors. Recently, I've been either creating pull requests on people's branch or pushing to the contributor's branch just before merging.

I wonder if it would be worthwhile to have a bot that automatically pushes formatting fixes to submitted PRs (using autopep8 or yapf).

That'd be great; do you know if such a thing exists? I don't know of any off the shelf implementation of this, no. -n