flymake : How can I modify/ignore syntax and styling rules?

Question

I'm using elpy to code in Python, along with flymake to help with style/syntax checking.

The problem being that I have my habit, and I like to sometimes put 2 blank lines between methods of the same class, which inevitably triggers the following :

E303 : too many blank lines (2).

Now I'd like, or to have flymake ignore this specific error, or to edit the file where these rules are written, to trigger for instance a warning from 3 blank lines, and not 2.

How could I do that ?

Thanks.

Edit : I'm using GNU emacs 24.5.1 on Ubuntu 16.04

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 20 '18 at 23:46

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flymake uses flake8 to check the errors, so you have to tell flake8 which errors you don't want to see. You can do that globally by creating the file ~/.config/flake8, with the following content:

[flake8]
ignore = E303

You can also create a setup.cfg at the root of your project, with the same syntax, to have different settings per project.

Make sure to restart flymake after changing flake's config.

answered Mar 20 '18 at 23:46

Jesse

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What if there are multiple rules that I want to ignore? – alper Jan 04 '20 at 20:26
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@alper you can use comma for that, like this: `ignore = E303,E304` – Jesse Jan 05 '20 at 17:24
Just in case I end up here again [Configuring Flake8](https://flake8.pycqa.org/en/latest/user/configuration.html) – Jim Jan 26 '23 at 18:03

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