I have a python import string. PEP8 linter show to me E501 error line too long (82 > 79 characters):
from tornado.options import define, options, parse_config_file, parse_command_line
Solution with two line seems weird to me:
from tornado.options import define, options, parse_config_file
from tornado.options import parse_command_line
How I can fix it without disable E501 for this line?
asked Oct 12, 2016 at 16:11
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Put your imported names in parentheses, letting you span multiple lines:
from tornado.options import (
define,
options,
parse_config_file,
parse_command_line,
)
Using one line per name has the added advantage that later edits to the list of names imported reduce line churn (you can see what was added and removed in your version control system as separate lines).
answered Oct 12, 2016 at 16:16
Martijn Pieters♦Martijn Pieters
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See PEP 328 for your options. Parentheses are probably the way to go.
answered Oct 12, 2016 at 16:17
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You should write it the way you think is more readable.. the 80 column limit was put in place for old style terminals that did not support re-sizing, which itself was for legacy support of terminal only computers where the monitor was only 80 chars wide. See: A Foolish Consistency is the Hobgoblin of Little Minds #1 from pep8
answered Oct 12, 2016 at 16:22
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Answer by Teagan O’Donnell
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E501 is a linter error, not a Python interpreter error. Your code, in theory, should work just fine. If you want to prevent this error, simply break the value up (assuming it’s a string … you don’t make that clear):
my_key = ('aaaaaaa_aaaaaaaa-11aa1a1a-aa11-111a-aaaa-'
'11111aaa1a1a-aa11a1a1-0aa1-11a1-1111-'
'1aa111a0a111')
notifications_client = NotificationsAPIClient(my_key)
Answer by Mohammed Owens
Maybe just delete that one sentence and make it:
One exception to PEP 8 is our opinion on line length. Don’t limit lines of code to 79 characters if it means the code looks significantly uglier or is harder to read.
,
Limited lines to 119 characters in django/
,
Limited lines to 119 characters in django/{contrib,db}.
,
[1.7.x] Limited lines to 119 characters in django/{contrib,db}.
I’m working on the updates in django/ and I’ve split up the test updates into 3 files. Please claim one by commenting here if you want to work on it.
django/
Answer by Capri Rodgers
When using PEP8 code checkers such as flake8 in Python, an error of E501 line too long occurs when one line exceeds 80 characters.,If the number of characters in a line becomes too long due to method chaining, the line can be broken in the same way.,In Python, a backslash () is a continuation character, and if it is placed at the end of a line, it is considered that the line is continued, ignoring subsequent newlines.,Get the length of a string (number of characters) in Python
n = 1 + 2
+ 3
print(n)
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Answer by Tadeo Villegas
Parseable output: Jump to error location in your editor.,Variables in the custom format option,At the user level, settings are read from the following locations:,Introduction
Features
Disclaimer
Installation
Example usage and output
Configuration
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Related tools
$ pip install pycodestyle
$ pip install --upgrade pycodestyle
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Answer by Jaxxon Hernandez
so I think it is pyflakes but I do not know how to ignore the line-too-long error.,When I check on SublimeLinter User Preference file, I find the following:,You need to find out which plugin is providing these. If it’s SublimeLinter, you can easily disable these warnings in the settings.,I work on several python scripts and I do not like the fact that using the plake8 (I suppose this is the origin) imposes the line length so that in the gutter (after saving a file) I get indicators of warnings that the line is too long. I do only want useful warnings/errors mentioned in the gutter so that I will look at them. Now I do not do that since it is most of the time ‘line too long’. So how can I avoid this error. I have already put E501 in different settings as to be ignored but in vain.
When I check on SublimeLinter User Preference file, I find the following:
},
"Python": {
"cmd": "pyflakes"
},
Answer by Silas Bean
Describe the bug
I was following this guide to suppress line-too-long errors on a file with loads of lines that have to be too long.
So I added # pylint: disable=line-too-long to the beginning of the file. But the prospector still throws these errors. When I manually run pylint file.py I can confirm that my disabling rule does work as expected.,Add # pylint: disable=line-too-long to the beginning of the file,Environment (please complete the following information):,
[BUG] Supressing pylint errors does not seem to have effect
I get the following output:
$ prospector
Messages
========
module.py
Line: 3
pylint: import-error / Unable to import 'this_package_doesnt_exist'
pylint: unused-import / Unused import this_package_doesnt_exist
Line: 4
pep8: E501 / line too long (872 > 159 characters) (col 160)
Answer by Brianna Parrish
With #4298 being merged, all the code should now be PEP 8 compliant.,OK, I’ll look into getting some of the python.d data collection modules done today then (I’ve got the a-c stuff mostly ready other than actually pushing the branch).,Do we want to make this the standard style for the ORDER and CHARTS[*][‘options’],Do we want to make this the standard style for the ORDER and CHARTS[*][‘options’]?
ORDER = ['queries', 'queries_dropped', 'packets_dropped', 'answers', 'backend_responses', 'backend_commerrors', 'backend_errors', 'cache', 'servercpu', 'servermem', 'query_latency', 'query_latency_avg']
While trying to input my API key python is giving me a line too long code
E501: line too long
What I have is
notifications_client = NotificationsAPIClient(aaaaaaa_aaaaaaaa-11aa1a1a-aa11-111a-aaaa-11111aaa1a1a-aa11a1a1-0aa1-11a1-1111-1aa111a0a111)
For obvious reasons I have changed the API key to have only a’s 1’s and 0’s but how can I break up this line of code so I no longer get this error?
asked Nov 5, 2018 at 16:21
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E501 is a linter error, not a Python interpreter error. Your code, in theory, should work just fine. If you want to prevent this error, simply break the value up (assuming it’s a string … you don’t make that clear):
my_key = ('aaaaaaa_aaaaaaaa-11aa1a1a-aa11-111a-aaaa-'
'11111aaa1a1a-aa11a1a1-0aa1-11a1-1111-'
'1aa111a0a111')
notifications_client = NotificationsAPIClient(my_key)
answered Nov 5, 2018 at 16:26
Jonah BishopJonah Bishop
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E501 is not a python error, rather than a PEP8 error. Meaning your line is longer than 80 chars (in your case it’s 137 chars long).
Your editor or runtime are verifying that your code is correct by PEP8 rules and that’s why you are getting this «error». Your Python code has actually no errors at all.
If you want your code to be PEP8 compliant I suggest:
- Extract the API key to a local variable.
- If it’s still too long you can break up the string into multiple lines
Here is an example:
API_KEY = 'aaaaaaa_aaaaaaaa-11aa1a1a-aa11-111a'
'-aaaa-11111aaa1a1a-aa11a1a1-0aa1-'
'11a1-1111-1aa111a0a111'
notifications_client = NotificationsAPIClient(API_KEY)
answered Nov 5, 2018 at 16:31
yogiyogi
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Use to break your line. Like;
notifications_client = NotificationsAPIClient(aaaaaaa_aaaaaaaa-11aa1a1a-
aa11-111a-aaaa-11111aaa1a1a-
aa11a1a1-0aa1-11a1-1111-1aa111a0a111)
answered Nov 5, 2018 at 16:27
ChaosPredictorChaosPredictor
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Option which doesn’t involved breaking the string literal:
notifications_client = NotificationsAPIClient(
"kkkkkkkkkkkkkeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy"
)
So long as your key is <73 (minus scope indentation) characters long. If not, you’ll have to split it.
answered Nov 5, 2018 at 16:31
Solution 1
E501 is a linter error, not a Python interpreter error. Your code, in theory, should work just fine. If you want to prevent this error, simply break the value up (assuming it’s a string … you don’t make that clear):
my_key = ('aaaaaaa_aaaaaaaa-11aa1a1a-aa11-111a-aaaa-'
'11111aaa1a1a-aa11a1a1-0aa1-11a1-1111-'
'1aa111a0a111')
notifications_client = NotificationsAPIClient(my_key)
Solution 2
E501 is not a python error, rather than a PEP8 error. Meaning your line is longer than 80 chars (in your case it’s 137 chars long).
Your editor or runtime are verifying that your code is correct by PEP8 rules and that’s why you are getting this «error». Your Python code has actually no errors at all.
If you want your code to be PEP8 compliant I suggest:
- Extract the API key to a local variable.
- If it’s still too long you can break up the string into multiple lines
Here is an example:
API_KEY = 'aaaaaaa_aaaaaaaa-11aa1a1a-aa11-111a'
'-aaaa-11111aaa1a1a-aa11a1a1-0aa1-'
'11a1-1111-1aa111a0a111'
notifications_client = NotificationsAPIClient(API_KEY)
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While trying to input my API key python is giving me a line too long code
E501: line too longWhat I have is
notifications_client = NotificationsAPIClient(aaaaaaa_aaaaaaaa-11aa1a1a-aa11-111a-aaaa-11111aaa1a1a-aa11a1a1-0aa1-11a1-1111-1aa111a0a111)For obvious reasons I have changed the API key to have only a’s 1’s and 0’s but how can I break up this line of code so I no longer get this error?
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Python itself doesn’t produce that sort of error. It looks as if you are using some sort of linter or style checker?
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Hello — the issue still persists with pycodestyle v2.8.0.
You may reproduce it with following snippet:
no_flake8_e501_error = "My line longer than 80 chars xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" + ''' ''' flake8_e501_error = "My line longer than 80 chars xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
Running flake8 on this file results with:
e501.py:4:81: E501 line too long (103 > 80 characters)
Here are my flake8 installed plugins:
$ poetry run flake8 --bug-report
{
"dependencies": [],
"platform": {
"python_implementation": "CPython",
"python_version": "3.9.6",
"system": "Darwin"
},
"plugins": [
{
"is_local": false,
"plugin": "mccabe",
"version": "0.6.1"
},
{
"is_local": false,
"plugin": "pycodestyle",
"version": "2.8.0"
},
{
"is_local": false,
"plugin": "pyflakes",
"version": "2.4.0"
}
],
"version": "4.0.1"
}
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