[code-quality] Flake8 and Python 3

[Ian Cordasco]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 5:46 PM, diek <diek at bellaliant.net> wrote:
> Good Day,
> I have searched and read some posts on reddit and stack but I cannot get
> flake8 to use Python3. I looked at your docs, but I cannot find it.  I am
> using a Python3 virtualenv, and I pip installed Flake8.
> Flake8 is installed:
> _env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/flake8/utils.py
> Running version:
> 3.3.0 (mccabe: 0.6.1, pycodestyle: 2.3.1, pyflakes: 1.5.0) CPython 2.7.13 on
> Darwin

This tells me that the version of Flake8 that is being run is not the
one in your virtual environment.

> It is showing errors for items that are valid syntax. I require both Python
> 2 and 3 on my computer.

If python points to the virtualenv python, try using the documented method of

    python -m flake8

Cheers!