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Add explanation for not including lints in main lint tools (#93)
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- Explain lints are opinionated and not standards
- Explain flake8 plugin design as the other reason
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cooperlees authored Nov 7, 2019
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3. A fearsome imaginary creature, especially one evoked to frighten
children.

It is felt that these lints don't belong in the main Python tools as they
are very opinionated and do not have a PEP or standard behind them. Due to
``flake8`` being designed to be extensible, the original creators of these lints
believed that a plugin was the best route. This has resulted in better development
velocity for contributors and adaptive deployment for ``flake8`` users.

Installation
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