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Writing Plugins for Flake8
============================
Since |Flake8| 2.0, the |Flake8| tool has allowed for extensions and custom
plugins. In |Flake8| 3.0, we're expanding that ability to customize and
extend **and** we're attempting to thoroughly document it. Some of the
documentation in this section may reference third-party documentation to
reduce duplication and to point you, the developer, towards the authoritative
documentation for those pieces.
Getting Started
===============
To get started writing a |Flake8| :term:`plugin` you first need:
- An idea for a plugin
- An available package name on PyPI
- One or more versions of Python installed
- A text editor or IDE of some kind
- An idea of what *kind* of plugin you want to build:
* Formatter
* Check
Once you've gathered these things, you can get started.
All plugins for |Flake8| must be registered via `entry points`_. In this
section we cover:
- How to register your plugin so |Flake8| can find it
- How to make |Flake8| provide your check plugin with information (via
command-line flags, function/class parameters, etc.)
- How to make a formatter plugin
- How to write your check plugin so that it works with |Flake8| 2.x and 3.x
.. toctree::
:caption: Plugin Developer Documentation
:maxdepth: 2
registering-plugins
plugin-parameters
formatters
cross-compatibility
.. _entry points:
https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.html#entry-points
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