[Python-modules-team] Bug#817131: Bug#817131: Bug#817131: python-flake8: Missing binary

[Barry Warsaw]

On Mar 24, 2016, at 10:06 AM, Joel Cross wrote:

>Ddoes this mean that if I need to use the Python 2 version of Flake8 (for
>instance, for linting my Python 2 files), that I will need to install my own
>binary?  It seems to me that if the package is missing a binary, and that
>binary isn't provided by another package, then the package is pretty useless.

Ideally for these kinds of things, you would be able to run

$ python -m flake8 <options>

or

$ python /usr/bin/flake8 <options.

but I don't know that this works for flake8.

-Barry