diff --git a/CHANGES.current b/CHANGES.current
index 72764c694..f15c99e90 100644
--- a/CHANGES.current
+++ b/CHANGES.current
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ the issue number to the end of the URL: https://github.com/swig/swig/issues/
 Version 4.0.0 (in progress)
 ===========================
 
+2018-04-18: olly
+	    [Python] Suppress new pycodestyle warning:
+	    E252 missing whitespace around parameter equals
+
 2018-04-07: goatshriek
             [Ruby] #1213 Fix ruby %alias directive for global C/C++ functions.
 
diff --git a/Examples/Makefile.in b/Examples/Makefile.in
index 81697c8b2..8218f5122 100644
--- a/Examples/Makefile.in
+++ b/Examples/Makefile.in
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ else
 endif
 
 PYCODESTYLE       = @PYCODESTYLE@
-PYCODESTYLE_FLAGS = --ignore=E402,E501,E30,W291,W391
+PYCODESTYLE_FLAGS = --ignore=E252,E30,E402,E501,E731,W291,W391
 
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------
 # Build a C dynamically loadable module
diff --git a/Examples/test-suite/python/Makefile.in b/Examples/test-suite/python/Makefile.in
index 12844e311..e2aad7c8b 100644
--- a/Examples/test-suite/python/Makefile.in
+++ b/Examples/test-suite/python/Makefile.in
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ endif
 LANGUAGE     = python
 PYTHON       = $(PYBIN)
 PYCODESTYLE       = @PYCODESTYLE@
-PYCODESTYLE_FLAGS = --ignore=E30,E402,E501,E731,W291,W391
+PYCODESTYLE_FLAGS = --ignore=E252,E30,E402,E501,E731,W291,W391
 
 #*_runme.py for Python 2.x, *_runme3.py for Python 3.x
 PY2SCRIPTSUFFIX = _runme.py