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authorIan Cordasco <graffatcolmingov@gmail.com>2016-08-06 14:16:08 -0500
committerIan Cordasco <graffatcolmingov@gmail.com>2016-08-07 12:31:14 -0500
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Add --bug-report flag to help bug reporters
When invoked it will print out JSON that has all of the debugging information needed by the maintainers to diagnose or reproduce a bug. Closes #207
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flake8 --benchmark dir/
This **can not** be specified in config files.
+
+
+.. option:: --bug-report
+
+ Generate information necessary to file a complete bug report for Flake8.
+ This will pretty-print a JSON blob that should be copied and pasted into a
+ bug report for Flake8.
+
+ Command-line usage:
+
+ .. prompt:: bash
+
+ flake8 --bug-report
+
+ The output should look vaguely like:
+
+ .. code-block:: js
+
+ {
+ "dependencies": [
+ {
+ "dependency": "setuptools",
+ "version": "25.1.1"
+ }
+ ],
+ "platform": {
+ "python_implementation": "CPython",
+ "python_version": "2.7.12",
+ "system": "Darwin"
+ },
+ "plugins": [
+ {
+ "plugin": "mccabe",
+ "version": "0.5.1"
+ },
+ {
+ "plugin": "pycodestyle",
+ "version": "2.0.0"
+ },
+ {
+ "plugin": "pyflakes",
+ "version": "1.2.3"
+ }
+ ],
+ "version": "3.1.0.dev0"
+ }
+
+ This **can not** be specified in config files.