diff --git a/pep8.dat b/pep8.dat
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+Check	Description		Justification
+E111	req indent 4		Creates more continuation lines
+E114	req indent 4 cmnt	Same
+E231	req space after ,	makes calls like print() harder to read
+E266	no ## 			Required by Doxygen
+W291	trailing spaces in cmnt	Needed for space preserving para reformat
diff --git a/pep8.sh b/pep8.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+ignore=`awk -F\\\\t '{ print $1 }' pep8.dat | tail -n +2`
+a=(${ignore})
+list=$(echo "${a[@]}"|tr '[ ]' '[,]')
+echo python3 -m pep8 --ignore="$list" $@