Copying from https://github.com/PyCQA/pycodestyle/issues/384#issuecomment-176760177 per @rkern. > Similarly, unary `-` is falsely being reported as a W503 violation. > > ``` > [~/scratch]$ cat false_pep8.py > y = 75.0 > z = 100.0 > x = (y / > -z) > [~/scratch]$ pep8 false_pep8.py > false_pep8.py:4:6: W503 line break before binary operator > [~/scratch]$ pep8 --version > 1.7.0 > ```