About flakes in Python and Emacs

Here I briefly summarize a few options available for flaking in Python and Emacs. When they’re used together, it becomes really handy to check for errors while editing (i.e. at editing time).

Python

• autoflake uses pyflakes (faster than pylint or pychecker)
• flake8 is a wrapper around pyflakes, pep8, and McCabe script

Emacs

• Emacs flycheck intends to be a replacement for Emacs flymake
• flymake-python-pyflakes.el uses Emacs flymake + pyflakes or flake8