Removed project level .pep8 config file

Closes #364

Author: IanLee1521

CHANGES.txt

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ Changes:
 * Added tox test support for Python 3.5 and pypy3
 * Added check E275 for whitespace on `from ... import ...` lines; #489 / #491
 * Added W503 to the list of codes ignored by default ignore list; #498
+* Removed use of project level `.pep8` configuration file; #364
 
 Bugs:
 

docs/intro.rst

@@ -199,9 +199,8 @@ Example::
   max-line-length = 160
 
 At the project level, a ``setup.cfg`` file or a ``tox.ini`` file is read if
-present (``.pep8`` file is also supported, but it is deprecated).  If none of
-these files have a ``[pep8]`` section, no project specific configuration is
-loaded.
+present. If none of these files have a ``[pep8]`` section, no project specific
+configuration is loaded.
 
 
 Error codes

pycodestyle.py

@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
 except ImportError:
     USER_CONFIG = None
 
-PROJECT_CONFIG = ('setup.cfg', 'tox.ini', '.pep8')
+PROJECT_CONFIG = ('setup.cfg', 'tox.ini')
 TESTSUITE_PATH = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'testsuite')
 MAX_LINE_LENGTH = 79
 REPORT_FORMAT = {