How to ignore flake8 "line too long" errors in a heredoc

Question

Suppose I have a file with a heredoc with long lines:

    some_string = '''
very long lines here, 20 lines each of length 500
'''

How do I ignore all the flake8 "line too long" errors in that heredoc, without excluding the entire file from checking?

This answer describes # noqa for a single line, but I can't put that in the heredoc. The manual does not seem to describe ignoring a chunk of code.

Why do you have such long lines in the first place? Is it possible you could put them in a separate txt file instead? — wjandrea, Aug 07 '21 at 01:28
Could, but for a unit test, it's much more readable to just have the example right there. It's not actually length 500, it's more like 100. I just didn't want people to tell me to fiddle with the line length. — dfrankow, Aug 07 '21 at 15:30

score 25 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 06 '21 at 22:01

25

Oh oops, I found the answer. I can put # noqa at the end of the heredoc:

    some_string = '''
very long lines here, 20 lines each of length 500
'''  # noqa

I feel silly.

answered Aug 06 '21 at 22:01

dfrankow

5

pls don't feel silly, you helped me today :) – hintze Mar 04 '22 at 16:06
@hintze Ha ha, great! – dfrankow Mar 04 '22 at 16:34
What is the long line is comment? – xliiv May 03 '22 at 09:32
@xliiv I'm sorry, I don't understand the question. – dfrankow May 06 '22 at 16:06
I mean "What **if** the long line is a comment?" But after second try it turned out it works like expected (put ` # noqa` at the end of long comment), so nevermind. – xliiv May 07 '22 at 21:53

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