Merge pull request #88 from dpursehouse/max-line-length

Show maximum length in "E501 line too long" error message

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/pep8.py b/pep8.py
index 609131b..223fd87 100755
--- a/pep8.py
+++ b/pep8.py
@@ -272,7 +272,8 @@ def maximum_line_length(physical_line, max_line_length):
                 pass
         if length > max_line_length:
             return max_line_length, \
-                "E501 line too long (%d characters)" % length
+                "E501 line too long (%d characters > max %d)" % \
+                (length, max_line_length)
 
 
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