Ignoring a specific flake8 rule for a folder

Question

I am using flake8, flake8-docstrings and many other flake8 plugins in our project

I want to disable flake8-docstrings only for our test folder.

I want to avoid running flake8 twice because it would mean that running flake8 wouldn't be the straight forward flake8 . anymore. Not only that would mess with my ide settings, that would also be another excuse for the other developers in my project to not run flake8.

Is there a way to configure flake8 to exclude specific rules just for a specific folder?

Answer 1

There is not currently a native option for this.

There is a proposal to add support for this in the configuration file, though no current implementation exists.

There is flake8-per-file-ignores which is a plugin that accomplishes this feature

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Update: per-file-ignores has been included in core as of flake8 3.7.x

The easiest way to use it is in the configuration file:

[flake8]
per-file-ignores =
    tests/*: D101

(disclaimer: I am the current flake8 maintainer)