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How to tell flake8 to ignore comments

I'm using flake8 in emacs in order to clean up my python code. I find it annoying to have my comments flagged as errors (E501 line too long (x > 79 characters)). I'm wondering if anyone knows a way to kindly ask flake8 to ignore comments, both single and multi-line, but still let me know when my non-comment lines are too long?

Thanks in advance!

Solution

  • I've figured out a possible solution to this, but there might be something better. If you write a comment that will raise an E501 error, i.e. it is too long, you can append that line with # noqa: E501, and flake8 will ignore it. For example:

    # This is a really really long comment that would usually be flagged by flake8 because it is longer than 79 characters

    would usually raise an E501, but

    # This is a really really long comment that would usually be flagged by flake8 because it is longer than 79 characters # noqa: E501

    will not.

    documented here.