https://github.com/pycqa/flake8

complexity-analysis flake8 linter linter-flake8 pep8 python python3 static-analysis static-code-analysis style-guide styleguide stylelint

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flake8 is a python tool that glues together pycodestyle, pyflakes, mccabe, and third-party plugins to check the style and quality of some python code.

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/pycqa/flake8
Owner: PyCQA
License: other
Created: 2014-09-13T17:06:24.000Z (over 11 years ago)
Default Branch: main
Last Pushed: 2025-12-22T21:54:36.000Z (about 1 month ago)
Last Synced: 2026-01-23T02:14:28.007Z (14 days ago)
Topics: complexity-analysis, flake8, linter, linter-flake8, pep8, python, python3, static-analysis, static-code-analysis, style-guide, styleguide, stylelint
Language: Python
Homepage: https://flake8.pycqa.org
Size: 3.59 MB
Stars: 3,752
Watchers: 37
Forks: 339
Open Issues: 23
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.rst
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.rst
- Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
- License: LICENSE
- Security: .github/SECURITY.md
Funding:
- Github: asottile
- Tidelift: pypi/flake8

Owner metadata:

Name: Python Code Quality Authority
Login: PyCQA
Email: code-quality@python.org
Kind: organization
Description: Organization for code quality tools (and plugins) for the Python programming language
Website: http://meta.pycqa.org
Location: Everywhere
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Company:
Icon url: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/8749848?v=4
Repositories: 28
Last Synced at: 2026-01-15T05:00:35.311Z
Profile URL: https://github.com/PyCQA

GitHub Events

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Issue comment event: 53
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Commit comment event: 1
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Issue comment event: 34
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Total: 399

Committers metadata

Last synced: 4 days ago

Total Commits: 1,775
Total Committers: 174
Avg Commits per committer: 10.201
Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.568

Commits in past year: 24
Committers in past year: 3
Avg Commits per committer in past year: 8.0
Development Distribution Score (DDS) in past year: 0.417

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Issue and Pull Request metadata

Last synced: 16 days ago

Total issues: 162
Total pull requests: 141
Average time to close issues: 20 days
Average time to close pull requests: 8 days
Total issue authors: 141
Total pull request authors: 40
Average comments per issue: 2.27
Average comments per pull request: 0.72
Merged pull request: 94
Bot issues: 0
Bot pull requests: 41

Past year issues: 18
Past year pull requests: 38
Past year average time to close issues: 1 day
Past year average time to close pull requests: 5 days
Past year issue authors: 18
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Past year average comments per issue: 1.17
Past year average comments per pull request: 0.61
Past year merged pull request: 24
Past year bot issues: 0
Past year bot pull requests: 9

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Package metadata

Total packages: 29
Total downloads:
- pypi: 42,348,584 last-month
Total docker downloads: 1,887,960,020
Total dependent packages: 8,090 (may contain duplicates)
Total dependent repositories: 155,305 (may contain duplicates)
Total versions: 198
Total maintainers: 5

pypi.org: flake8

the modular source code checker: pep8 pyflakes and co

Homepage: https://github.com/pycqa/flake8
Documentation: https://flake8.readthedocs.io/
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 7.3.0 (published 8 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-02-01T18:27:59.758Z (4 days ago)
Versions: 94
Dependent Packages: 7,994
Dependent Repositories: 153,063
Downloads: 42,348,584 Last month
Docker Downloads: 1,887,960,020
Rankings:
- Dependent packages count: 0.002%
- Dependent repos count: 0.005%
- Downloads: 0.042%
- Docker downloads count: 0.263%
- Average: 1.023%
- Stargazers count: 1.872%
- Forks count: 3.953%
Maintainers (2)
- asottile
- graffatcolmingov

alpine-v3.18: py3-flake8-pyc

Precompiled Python bytecode for py3-flake8

Homepage: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 6.0.0-r1 (published almost 3 years ago)
Last Synced: 2026-01-05T09:54:35.729Z (about 1 month ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
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Rankings:
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- Average: 2.428%
- Stargazers count: 4.504%
- Forks count: 5.207%
Maintainers (1)
- fabian@affolter-engineering.ch

alpine-v3.18: py3-flake8

modular source code checker

Homepage: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 6.0.0-r1 (published almost 3 years ago)
Last Synced: 2026-01-05T09:55:22.320Z (about 1 month ago)
Versions: 1
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- Average: 2.429%
- Stargazers count: 4.509%
- Forks count: 5.207%
Maintainers (1)
- fabian@affolter-engineering.ch

spack.io: py-flake8

Flake8 is a wrapper around PyFlakes, pep8 and Ned Batchelder's McCabe script.

Homepage: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
Licenses: []
Latest release: 6.1.0 (published over 2 years ago)
Last Synced: 2024-12-13T08:53:09.145Z (about 1 year ago)
Versions: 15
Dependent Packages: 12
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Rankings:
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- Average: 3.849%
- Stargazers count: 4.53%
- Dependent packages count: 4.724%
- Forks count: 6.141%
Maintainers (1)
- adamjstewart

alpine-edge: py3-flake8

Modular source code checker

Homepage: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 7.3.0-r1 (published 6 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-01-30T06:24:59.882Z (7 days ago)
Versions: 11
Dependent Packages: 1
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Average: 4.273%
- Stargazers count: 4.649%
- Dependent packages count: 6.031%
- Forks count: 6.41%
Maintainers (1)
- fossdd@pwned.life

conda-forge.org: flake8

Homepage: http://flake8.pycqa.org/
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 5.0.4 (published over 3 years ago)
Last Synced: 2026-01-30T06:25:27.193Z (7 days ago)
Versions: 28
Dependent Packages: 78
Dependent Repositories: 1,121
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.669%
- Dependent packages count: 0.983%
- Average: 5.005%
- Stargazers count: 7.8%
- Forks count: 10.569%

alpine-edge: py3-flake8-pyc

Precompiled Python bytecode for py3-flake8

Homepage: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 7.3.0-r1 (published 6 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-01-22T15:08:38.936Z (14 days ago)
Versions: 10
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Average: 7.125%
- Dependent packages count: 14.251%
Maintainers (1)
- fossdd@pwned.life

alpine-v3.17: py3-flake8

modular source code checker

Homepage: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 5.0.4-r0 (published over 3 years ago)
Last Synced: 2026-01-30T06:25:05.789Z (7 days ago)
Versions: 1
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- Average: 9.09%
- Dependent packages count: 27.254%
Maintainers (1)
- fabian@affolter-engineering.ch

anaconda.org: flake8

Flake8 runs all the tools by launching the single flake8 command. It displays the warnings in a per-file, merged output.

Homepage: https://flake8.pycqa.org
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 7.3.0 (published 4 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-01-30T06:22:29.414Z (7 days ago)
Versions: 17
Dependent Packages: 5
Dependent Repositories: 1,121
Rankings:
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- Dependent packages count: 8.578%
- Average: 11.867%
- Stargazers count: 15.293%
- Forks count: 19.505%

nixpkgs-23.11: python310Packages.flake8

Flake8 is a wrapper around pyflakes, pycodestyle and mccabe.

Homepage: https://github.com/pycqa/flake8
Documentation: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-23.11/pkgs/development/python-modules/flake8/default.nix#L37
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 6.1.0 (published 4 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-02-02T06:24:50.039Z (4 days ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:

nixpkgs-23.11: python311Packages.flake8

Flake8 is a wrapper around pyflakes, pycodestyle and mccabe.

Homepage: https://github.com/pycqa/flake8
Documentation: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-23.11/pkgs/development/python-modules/flake8/default.nix#L37
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 6.1.0 (published 4 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-02-02T06:53:37.155Z (4 days ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:

alpine-v3.20: py3-flake8-pyc

Precompiled Python bytecode for py3-flake8

Homepage: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 7.0.0-r1 (published almost 2 years ago)
Last Synced: 2026-01-30T06:25:38.947Z (7 days ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
Maintainers (1)
- fabian@affolter-engineering.ch

alpine-v3.22: py3-flake8

Modular source code checker

Homepage: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 7.2.0-r0 (published 10 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-01-30T06:24:51.666Z (7 days ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
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- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
Maintainers (1)
- fossdd@pwned.life

nixpkgs-24.05: python312Packages.flake8

The modular source code checker: pep8, pyflakes and co

Homepage: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
Documentation: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-24.05/pkgs/development/python-modules/flake8/default.nix#L39
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 7.0.0 (published 4 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-02-02T00:55:02.975Z (4 days ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:

nixpkgs-24.05: python311Packages.flake8

The modular source code checker: pep8, pyflakes and co

Homepage: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
Documentation: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-24.05/pkgs/development/python-modules/flake8/default.nix#L39
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 7.0.0 (published 4 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-02-02T00:20:45.602Z (4 days ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:

alpine-v3.21: py3-flake8-pyc

Precompiled Python bytecode for py3-flake8

Homepage: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 7.1.1-r0 (published over 1 year ago)
Last Synced: 2026-01-30T06:24:26.997Z (7 days ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
Maintainers (1)
- fossdd@pwned.life

nixpkgs-unstable: python314Packages.flake8

Modular source code checker: pep8, pyflakes and co

Homepage: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
Documentation: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-unstable/pkgs/development/python-modules/flake8/default.nix#L43
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 7.3.0 (published 10 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-02-02T11:13:38.556Z (3 days ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:

alpine-v3.19: py3-flake8-pyc

Precompiled Python bytecode for py3-flake8

Homepage: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 6.1.0-r0 (published over 2 years ago)
Last Synced: 2026-01-30T06:24:46.634Z (7 days ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
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- Average: 100%
Maintainers (1)
- fabian@affolter-engineering.ch

nixpkgs-24.11: python312Packages.flake8

Modular source code checker: pep8, pyflakes and co

Homepage: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
Documentation: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-24.11/pkgs/development/python-modules/flake8/default.nix#L40
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 7.1.1 (published 4 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-02-01T17:58:40.481Z (4 days ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:

nixpkgs-24.11: python311Packages.flake8

Modular source code checker: pep8, pyflakes and co

Homepage: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
Documentation: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-24.11/pkgs/development/python-modules/flake8/default.nix#L40
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 7.1.1 (published 4 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-02-01T17:31:42.575Z (4 days ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:

nixpkgs-23.05: python311Packages.flake8

Flake8 is a wrapper around pyflakes, pycodestyle and mccabe.

Homepage: https://github.com/pycqa/flake8
Documentation: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-23.05/pkgs/development/python-modules/flake8/default.nix#L44
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 6.0.0 (published 10 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-02-02T13:12:10.887Z (3 days ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:

alpine-v3.23: py3-flake8-pyc

Precompiled Python bytecode for py3-flake8

Homepage: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 7.3.0-r1 (published 6 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-02-01T07:40:54.890Z (5 days ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:

alpine-v3.21: py3-flake8

Modular source code checker

Homepage: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 7.1.1-r0 (published over 1 year ago)
Last Synced: 2026-01-30T06:25:10.420Z (7 days ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
Maintainers (1)
- fossdd@pwned.life

alpine-v3.22: py3-flake8-pyc

Precompiled Python bytecode for py3-flake8

Homepage: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 7.2.0-r0 (published 10 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-01-30T06:25:27.043Z (7 days ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
Maintainers (1)
- fossdd@pwned.life

alpine-v3.19: py3-flake8

modular source code checker

Homepage: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 6.1.0-r0 (published over 2 years ago)
Last Synced: 2026-01-06T07:04:51.867Z (about 1 month ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%

alpine-v3.20: py3-flake8

modular source code checker

Homepage: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 7.0.0-r1 (published almost 2 years ago)
Last Synced: 2026-01-06T06:29:46.820Z (about 1 month ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
Maintainers (1)
- fabian@affolter-engineering.ch

alpine-v3.23: py3-flake8

Modular source code checker

Homepage: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 7.3.0-r1 (published 6 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-02-01T07:40:54.968Z (5 days ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:

nixpkgs-23.05: python310Packages.flake8

Flake8 is a wrapper around pyflakes, pycodestyle and mccabe.

Homepage: https://github.com/pycqa/flake8
Documentation: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-23.05/pkgs/development/python-modules/flake8/default.nix#L44
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 6.0.0 (published 10 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-02-02T13:06:09.694Z (3 days ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:

nixpkgs-unstable: python313Packages.flake8

Modular source code checker: pep8, pyflakes and co

Homepage: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
Documentation: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-unstable/pkgs/development/python-modules/flake8/default.nix#L43
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 7.3.0 (published 10 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-02-02T11:06:16.303Z (3 days ago)
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