change spacing to two instead of four with pep8 or flake8?

[Peter Otten]

Roy Smith wrote:

> In article <mailman.9010.1396961763.18130.python-list at python.org>,
>  Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de> wrote:
> 
>> Dennis wrote:
>> 
>> > In Pylint you can change the spacing multiplier from 4 spaces to two
>> > in its pylintrc, but for the life of me I cannot find a way to do this
>> > with the flake8 / pep8 utilities.
>> > 
>> > I want to avoid ignoring E111 altogether if at all possible, because
>> > it may catch other spacing problems that are not as obvious.
>> > 
>> > hacky/non-hacky solutions welcome of course.
>> 
>> The check is hardcoded
>> 
>>     if indent_char == ' ' and indent_level % 4:
>>         yield 0, "E111 indentation is not a multiple of four"
>> 
>> so your only short-term solution is to modify the script's source code.
> 
> There's always monkey-patching :-)

There is always a way to achieve roughly the same that takes more time and 
is slightly harder to get right ;)