Pycodestyle: The Next Release (pycodestyle 2.6.x)

[asottile]

:wave: I'm planning to organize the next release of pycodestyle

I'll be pinning this issue and collecting feedback on things that should end up in this release

Due to the number of contributions that have gone into pycodestyle since the last release, I'm planning to do this as 2.6.0a1 first (an alpha pre-release) -- this should hopefully expand the number of people trying the release (though I suspect not all that many will use the alpha still)

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How you can help:

• try out the latest master on your repositories: pip install --force-reinstall git+https://github.com/pypa/pycodestyle
• review open PRs

[asottile]

I believe #867 should be resolved before making this release so we have proper python3.8 support

[FichteFoll]

FWIW, I started running master on my code a couple weeks ago (on Python 3.8 codebases) and haven't encountered any issues so far.

[aviramha]

Running on master (Python 3.8 codebase) for the last 2 months. Everything looks good. Waiting for PyPI release :)

[asottile]

I've published a changelog for 2.6.0a1 here: #922 -- I don't have permission to release to pypi so one of the project managers will have to do that if everything looks good 👍

[IanLee1521]

Published to https://pypi.org/project/pycodestyle/2.6.0a1/ sorry for the delay, @ me next time, since I have too much email filtering right now... :)

[asottile]

no problem! thanks @IanLee1521!

[stianjensen]

Since I only use this project as a subdependency of flake8, and flake8 has a <2.6.0 requirement - can I install the alpha version to help test it before a stable release somehow? I'm getting a version conflict if I just try to add a 2.6.0a1 dependency on pycodestyle in addition to my flake8 dependency.

[asottile]

@stianjensen you're too quick -- just wait a bit I'm working on it :P https://gitlab.com/pycqa/flake8/-/merge_requests/418

[IanLee1521]

@stianjensen - If you manually upgrade pycodestyle after installing flake8, pip will complain, but will install (though I can't vouch for it working beyond that):

$> pip list
Package     Version
----------- -------
entrypoints 0.3
flake8      3.7.9
mccabe      0.6.1
pip         20.0.2
pycodestyle 2.5.0
pyflakes    2.1.1
setuptools  46.1.3
wheel       0.34.2

$> pip install -U --pre pycodestyle
Collecting pycodestyle
  Using cached pycodestyle-2.6.0a1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (41 kB)
ERROR: flake8 3.7.9 has requirement pycodestyle<2.6.0,>=2.5.0, but you'll have pycodestyle 2.6.0a1 which is incompatible.
Installing collected packages: pycodestyle
  Attempting uninstall: pycodestyle
    Found existing installation: pycodestyle 2.5.0
    Uninstalling pycodestyle-2.5.0:
      Successfully uninstalled pycodestyle-2.5.0
Successfully installed pycodestyle-2.6.0a1

$> pip list
Package     Version
----------- -------
entrypoints 0.3
flake8      3.7.9
mccabe      0.6.1
pip         20.0.2
pycodestyle 2.6.0a1
pyflakes    2.1.1
setuptools  46.1.3
wheel       0.34.2

[sigmavirus24]

though I can't vouch for it working beyond that

No one can, that's why there are those dependency bound :smile:

[asottile]

flake8 3.8.0a2 is out (well, it has been out for a few days, forgot to comment here) so I've been trying out the new pycodestyle -- the only regression I've found so far in my code (~78kloc) is #908 (I've put up a patch for that in #927)

[stianjensen]

Tested on my django+mypy codebase (also around 80kloc). The new walrus operator is working as expected, and the only new warning I get is E741 ambiguous variable name 'l' which I see is expected from the release notes :tada:

[asottile]

things have been quiet :) -- beyond #927 I think we're ready to remove the a1 and release 2.6.0 -- would appreciate some reviews on that PR though in the meantime!

[sigmavirus24]

Should we sneak #931 in there too?

[asottile]

yes I think so 👍

[sigmavirus24]

Done on both accounts

[asottile]

sweet, I'll put together a changelog and then we can get this out!

[asottile]

933 for that

[asottile]

oops, hasn't been released yet -- will resolve this when that happens (just merged the changelog for it!)

[IanLee1521]

Working on it now... :)

[IanLee1521]

And we are live! https://pypi.org/project/pycodestyle/2.6.0/

Huge shout out to @asottile for all the work on getting this done! All of the credit goes to them!