GSoC 2019 - Add a linter

[dotgourav]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Add linting support. Linting would help us maintain code quality and hence help new contributors understand the code better.

Describe the solution you'd like
Add flake8 with these plugins: flake8-docstrings, pep8-naming, flake8-import-order

I suggest using the Pre-commit framework for doing it. This would automate the checking of predefined hooks like flake8(https://flake8.pycqa.org/en/latest/user/using-hooks.html)

[botanicvelious]

Related to #7

[dotgourav]

I believe #7 should be broken down into issues such as:

• Add linting support
• Add travis CI with linting configuration
• Add test suite & update Travis CI config for running tests

Since 1 & 2 can be done fairly quickly and the project could use it right now as there are over 100 PEP8,PEP257 violations.

@botanicvelious What are your thoughts on it?

[botanicvelious]

Oh, I wasn't saying to add tests, just the framework, 👍

[sharmaadityaHQ]

I would like to take this up. Please guide me on how to get started with this.

[botanicvelious]

you would need to look at adding the approprate files, such as pylint.cfg landscape.yml and travis.yml for example