How to disable formatting errors?

[RyannDaGreat]

I'm coding in python and getting Flake8 errors I don't care about such as "E266: too many leading '#' for block comment"
How do I disable these annoying formatting errors while keeping more important errors such as forgetting parenthesis?

[w0rp]

You can disable them in your flake8 configuration files, or with line comments. https://flake8.pycqa.org/en/3.1.1/user/ignoring-errors.html

[RyannDaGreat]

Thank you - this will probably work, but this would make it system-wide right? Is there a way to do it from the .vimrc file so that it only changes the flake8 settings for vim?

[hsanson]

You can set options for ALE to use when calling flake8 with g:ale_python_flake8_options. This would affect only vim.

For example I see flake8 has an option --append-config that should allow you to create some config file and then tell ALE to use it when running flake8.

[RyannDaGreat]

Thank you, could you please give a simple example of how it should look in my .vimrc?

Would an example be like this?:

let g:ale_python_flake8_options='--ignore=E101,E111,E112,E113,E114'

[hsanson]

Yes, that seems to work fine. Tested it on one of my projects.