From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH v1] doc: add pep8 as the python code style
	guidelines
Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 15:50:42 +0100
Message-ID: <1464360642-2695-1-git-send-email-john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Cc: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Return-path: <dev-bounces@dpdk.org>
Received: from mga02.intel.com (mga02.intel.com [134.134.136.20])
 by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E310F2C45
 for <dev@dpdk.org>; Fri, 27 May 2016 16:50:45 +0200 (CEST)
List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK <dev.dpdk.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://dpdk.org/ml/options/dev>,
 <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/>
List-Post: <mailto:dev@dpdk.org>
List-Help: <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://dpdk.org/ml/listinfo/dev>,
 <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=subscribe>
Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org
Sender: "dev" <dev-bounces@dpdk.org>

Added PEP8 to the DPDK Coding Style guidelines to cover Python
contributions to DPDK.

Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/contributing/coding_style.rst | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/contributing/coding_style.rst b/doc/guides/contributing/coding_style.rst
index ad1392d..df64aad 100644
--- a/doc/guides/contributing/coding_style.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/contributing/coding_style.rst
@@ -685,3 +685,11 @@ Control Statements
                  usage();
                  /* NOTREACHED */
          }
+
+
+Python Code
+~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+All python code should be compliant with `PEP8 (Style Guide for Python Code) <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/>`_.
+
+The `pep8` tool can be used for testing compliance with the guidelines.
-- 
2.5.0