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by rbanffy 4097 days ago

  --style STYLE         specify formatting style: either a style name (for
                        example "pep8" or "google"), or the name of a file
                        with style settings. pep8 is the default.
> pep8 is the default.

I can breathe again.

2 comments

I don't think there was any other option. If the default wasn't pep8, the tool would have no chance of seeing wide adoption in the Python community, unless someone forked it and changed the default to pep8.
"Don't be evil" still sometimes holds true. :)