# Is there a PEP8 for Julia?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-a-pep8-for-julia/1433>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [January 12, 2017, 1:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-a-pep8-for-julia/1433 "2017-01-12T13:55:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 1:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-a-pep8-for-julia/1433/1 "2017-01-12T13:55:27Z")

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Is there a Guide to “pretty” Julia code yet? Meaning somehting similar to PEP8 and PEP250 (was it that numbers) from python?

Also: is there a linter for Atom / Juno yet?

Greetings!

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**Author:** ![lobingera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/lobingera/32/211_2.png) [@lobingera](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lobingera)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 2:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-a-pep8-for-julia/1433/2 "2017-01-12T14:22:49Z")

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[https://github.com/johnmyleswhite/Style.jl](https://github.com/johnmyleswhite/Style.jl) was referenced for some time, i don’t know the current status.

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**Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 3:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-a-pep8-for-julia/1433/3 "2017-01-12T15:03:21Z")

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I should really update that. At this point, I would tend to go with the Julia one: [http://docs.julialang.org/en/stable/manual/style-guide/](http://docs.julialang.org/en/stable/manual/style-guide/)

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**Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 7:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-a-pep8-for-julia/1433/4 "2017-01-12T19:48:51Z")

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There is a lint package:

> **[GitHub - tonyhffong/Lint.jl: A lint tool for Julia code](https://github.com/tonyhffong/Lint.jl)**
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> A lint tool for Julia code. Contribute to tonyhffong/Lint.jl development by creating an account on GitHub.

but I haven’t heard anything about integration with Juno.

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**Author:** ![Tero\_Frondelius](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tero_frondelius/32/7629_2.png) [@Tero\_Frondelius](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tero_Frondelius)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2017, 4:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-a-pep8-for-julia/1433/5 "2017-01-14T16:15:40Z")

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I am also interested of the topic. I did some searching and found this issue:  
[https://github.com/JuliaEditorSupport/atom-language-julia/issues/8](https://github.com/JuliaEditorSupport/atom-language-julia/issues/8)

If I understood correctly, it was almost working already.

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**Author:** ![Tero\_Frondelius](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tero_frondelius/32/7629_2.png) [@Tero\_Frondelius](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tero_Frondelius)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 5:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-a-pep8-for-julia/1433/6 "2017-02-02T17:13:51Z")

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I ended up doing the package myself:  
[https://github.com/TeroFrondelius/linter-julia](https://github.com/TeroFrondelius/linter-julia)  
It’s not yet published, but if someone wants to test drive, there are basic functionalities in place.

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**Post date:** [December 14, 2018, 5:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-a-pep8-for-julia/1433/7 "2018-12-14T17:23:14Z")

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FYI, for others finding this question years later, all of the packages have not been updated for a year. This is somewhat expected, given Julia just when through a big version jump and isn’t used by enough Big Corporate Teams to worry by minutia like:

- How may line-breaks to put between module/functions/imports?
- Spacing around operators
- Formatting of type annotations
- Docstring format

However, I’m still replying to this topic to get notified when the community decides this is a priority.

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**Post date:** [December 14, 2018, 5:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-a-pep8-for-julia/1433/8 "2018-12-14T17:33:03Z")

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Personally I find PEP8 overly restrictive and pretty annoying, though I do think having a standardized doc-string format is a really good idea, so a big +1 to that.

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**Post date:** [December 14, 2018, 6:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-a-pep8-for-julia/1433/9 "2018-12-14T18:38:17Z")

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I too tend to find such guides a bit overly restrictive, and I think it shifts focus from far more important factors (writing clean, DRY, reusable, maintainable code).

For the latter, there’s the [Julia Style Guide](https://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/style-guide/index.html).

When it comes to formatting, I think the [General Formatting Guidelines for Julia code contributions](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#general-formatting-guidelines-for-julia-code-contributions) are great, not too restrictive.

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**Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 12:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-a-pep8-for-julia/1433/10 "2021-12-01T12:39:27Z")

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Anything new in this area?

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**Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 1:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-a-pep8-for-julia/1433/11 "2021-12-01T13:53:57Z")

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About a general style guide or a formatting tool? There is no ecosystem-wide style guide, there are some different guides. As a formatting tool there is [`JuliaFormatter.jl`](https://github.com/domluna/JuliaFormatter.jl), which supports some those styles. I believe it’s also integrated in some IDEs like the Julia VS Code plugin

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**Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 2:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-a-pep8-for-julia/1433/12 "2021-12-01T14:20:28Z")

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> [@giordano](#):
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> There is no ecosystem-wide style guide, there are some different guides.

Some popular guides include [BlueStyle](https://github.com/invenia/BlueStyle) and [YASGuide](https://github.com/jrevels/YASGuide).