Todd Rovito added the comment:

Ezio,
   I think modern editors are expected to have this sort of functionality built 
into them [1].  XCode is simply amazing where it will pop up errors and quote 
the C99 standard [2].  We don't expect IDLE to have all that functionality but 
it seemed to us like it would be great to add pep8 or PyFlakes to IDLE.  It is 
possible we could create an extension but that would void Python's motto 
"batteries included".  In addition tools like pep8 and PyFlakes could be useful 
for other purposes as well.  JayKrish is checking with the authors of pep8 
about license issues.  As always we will defer to the judgement of Core 
Developers and could pursue either option.  


[1] Wikipeida Microsoft Visual Studio, 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_Studio#Code_editor
[2] XCode, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCode

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