Ezio,
   I think modern editors are expected to have this sort of functionality built into them [1].  XCode is simply amazing where it will pop up errors and quote the C99 standard [2].  We don't expect IDLE to have all that functionality but it seemed to us like it would be great to add pep8 or PyFlakes to IDLE.  It is possible we could create an extension but that would void Python's motto "batteries included".  In addition tools like pep8 and PyFlakes could be useful for other purposes as well.  JayKrish is checking with the authors of pep8 about license issues.  As always we will defer to the judgement of Core Developers and could pursue either option.  


[1] Wikipeida Microsoft Visual Studio, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_Studio#Code_editor
[2] XCode, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCode