I don't disagree, but keep in mind that on the large codebase you want to avoid false negative in term of pep8 errors.. I.e. if every time you build you see 100

I don't disagree, but keep in mind that on the large codebase you want to avoid false negative in term of pep8 errors.. I.e. if every time you build you see 100s of errors, you start to ignore those.