Add linting script

scripts/linter.py

+import os
+import os.path as osp
+import pathlib
+import subprocess
+
+
+def recursively_lint_files():
+    """Recursively lint all python files in chosen subdirectories of megatron-lm"""
+
+    try:
+        import autopep8
+    except ModuleNotFoundError:
+        print("Please first install autopep8 via `pip install autopep8`")
+        return
+
+    # get all python file paths from top level directory
+    file_dir = str(pathlib.Path(__file__).parent.absolute())
+    working_dir = osp.join(file_dir, os.pardir)
+    all_py_paths = set(os.path.join(working_dir, fname)
+                       for fname in os.listdir(working_dir) if ".py" in fname)
+
+    # get all python file paths from chosen subdirectories
+    check_dirs = ['docker', 'megatron', 'openwebtext', 'scripts', 'tasks']
+    for sub_dir in check_dirs:
+        for path, _, fnames in os.walk(osp.join(working_dir, sub_dir)):
+            all_py_paths.update(set(osp.join(path, fname) for fname in fnames if ".py" in fname))
+
+    print("Linting the following: ")
+    for py_path in all_py_paths:
+        print(py_path)
+        command = 'autopep8 --max-line-length 100 --aggressive --in-place {}'.format(py_path)
+        subprocess.check_call(command)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    recursively_lint_files()