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Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 01:50:39 +0100
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On 30/05/2014 01:13, Roy Smith wrote:
> We've recently started using pyflakes.  The results seem to be similar
> to most tools of this genre.  It found a few real problems.  It
> generated a lot of noise about things which weren't really wrong, but
> were easy to fix (mostly, unused imports), and a few plain old false
> positives which have no easy "fix" (in the sense of, things I can change
> which will make pyflakes STFU).
>
> So, what's the best practice here?  How do people deal with the false
> positives?  Is there some way to annotate the source code to tell
> pyflakes to ignore something?
>

I was under the impression that pyflakes was configurable.  It it isn't 
I'd simply find another tool.  Having said that if you don't get better 
answers here try gmane.comp.python.code-quality.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
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Mark Lawrence

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