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flake8 max-complexity per file

I have a legacy project using flake8 to check code quality and complexity, but the project has some very complicated (terrible) services which are returning complexity WARNING messages:

./service1.py:127:1: C901 'some_method' is too complex (50)

We are slowly transitioning into making them better, but we need to make jenkins (which is running tests and flake8) pass.

Is there a way to specify ignoring a code error or complexity per file, or even per method?

Solution

  • You can use flake8-per-file-ignores:

    pip install flake8-per-file-ignores

    And then in your config file:

    [flake8]
per-file-ignores =
    your/legacy/path/*.py: C901,E402

    If you want a per-method/function solution you can use the in-source # noqa: ignore=C901 syntax.