Comment/Uncomment should follow PEP8

[endolith]

Description of your problem

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Write some code
2. Highlight it
3. Press Ctrl+1 or whatever the Comment/Uncomment key is

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
It puts a hash before it and no space:

#def test():
#    pass

This then triggers the pyflakes PEP8 checker E265 block comment should start with '# '.

It should add a space too:

# def test():
#     pass

Versions and main components

• Spyder Version: 2.3.8
• Python Version: 2.7.11
• Operating system: Windows 7

Dependencies

Please go to the menu entry Help > Optional Dependencies (or
Help > Dependencies), press the button Copy to clipboard
and paste the contents below:

IPython >=1.0 : 4.2.0 (OK)
jedi >=0.8.1;<0.9.0: 0.9.0 (NOK)
matplotlib >=1.0 : 1.5.1 (OK)
pandas >=0.13.1 : 0.18.0 (OK)
pep8 >=0.6 : 1.7.0 (OK)
pyflakes >=0.5.0 : 1.1.0 (OK)
pygments >=1.6 : 2.1.1 (OK)
pylint >=0.25 : 1.5.4 (OK)
qtconsole >=4.0 : 4.2.1 (OK)
rope >=0.9.2 : 0.9.4 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6 : 1.3.5 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.3 : 1.0 (OK)
zmq >=2.1.11 : 15.2.0 (OK)

[Nodd]

I agree that it should follow pep8 but it can be problematic in some cases when uncommenting. This problem has already been reported in #1785, please have a look at the discussion over there.

I'm closing this one as a duplicate.