please set returncode according to file(s) OK or not about codespell HOT 5 CLOSED

FYI right now I do codespell.py ... | tee /dev/tty | wc -l | xargs test 0 -eq to get it to print the result and give a meaningful error code.

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yeah... we should return an error code. Anyone up to send a patch for this?

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Sure :)

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Sorry for commenting on an old issue: I would be interested in two examples, showing:

• How to call codespell from python (script or notebook) and
• How to ceck the return code from that script.

If you happen to have such an example it would be greatly appreciated, otherwise I would try how far I can get myself.

EDIT: This file was a good starting point for me:
https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell/blob/master/codespell_lib/tests/test_basic.py

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All of the tests do this. Everything is routed through codespell_lib.main. Historically it has been designed as a command-line utility rather than with user-accessible Python functions in mind, so if you want to use Python functions with reasonable args / kwargs and so forth then it will probably require refactoring.

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