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Subject: Re: change spacing to two instead of four with pep8 or flake8?
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 14:55:46 +0200
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Dennis wrote:

> In Pylint you can change the spacing multiplier from 4 spaces to two
> in its pylintrc, but for the life of me I cannot find a way to do this
> with the flake8 / pep8 utilities.
> 
> I want to avoid ignoring E111 altogether if at all possible, because
> it may catch other spacing problems that are not as obvious.
> 
> hacky/non-hacky solutions welcome of course.

The check is hardcoded

    if indent_char == ' ' and indent_level % 4:
        yield 0, "E111 indentation is not a multiple of four"

so your only short-term solution is to modify the script's source code.