diff --git a/.flake8 b/.flake8
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..810d6db84f8c195e088145f2a053988617ac39d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.flake8
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+[flake8]
+count = True
+max-line-length = 79
+show-source = True
+statistics = True
+exclude =
+    .git,
+    __pycache__,
+    venv