Workaround feature https://github.com/jcrocholl/pep8/issues/159

pep8org.py

#!python
import re

import pep8

# This is a very long line - 79 chars --------------------------------123456789
# This is a very [[with-poporg][long line]] - 79 chars --------------------------------123456789
# This is a very [[with-poporg][long line]] - 80 chars --------------------------------1234567890


def maximum_line_length(physical_line, max_line_length):
    line = physical_line.rstrip()
    length = len(line)
    if length > max_line_length:
        if pep8.noqa(line):
            return
        if hasattr(line, 'decode'):   # Python 2
            # The line could contain multi-byte characters
            try:
                length = len(line.decode('utf-8'))
            except UnicodeError:
                pass
        if length > max_line_length:
            line = re.sub(r'\[\[[^]]*\]\[([^]]*)\]\]', r'\1', line)
            length = len(line)
        if length > max_line_length:
            return (max_line_length, "E501 line too long "
                    "(%d > %d characters)" % (length, max_line_length))
del pep8._checks['physical_line'][pep8.maximum_line_length]
pep8.register_check(maximum_line_length, ['E501'])

if __name__ == '__main__':
    pep8._main()