Linting standards

[markbandstra]

Which linters should we use to standardize our code?

I have become more of a fan of pylint recently. It can give a lot of messages at first, but I find them actually pretty helpful in the long run once a couple of the worst offenders are muted.

Maybe we can consider a minimum linting requirement, like pyflakes or flake8 or pep8, and a recommended standard like pylint with some errors ignored. It sounds like we can integrate these when we set up continuous integration.

Any thoughts?

[markbandstra]

We will require flake8 and recommend pylint.

Meeting notes: https://github.com/bearing/becquerel/wiki/Meetings#code-style-standards