is there a way to tell the flake8 lin

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< hundreds father 404> is there a way to tell the flake8 linter to ignore whole directories i e pants targets configuring excludes in the flake8 config file pants uses has no effect since in v2 pants passed a list of py files for flake8 to process

hundreds-father-404 · Answer

Hm can you share more about the use case please The way we achieve this in the Pants code base is via tags For every target you wan to skip add something like this ```python library tags= nolint ``` Then ` tc tags= nolint lint `

polite-garden-50641 · Answer

yes I am looking into vendoring an external package into our repo under src python some package I want to take it as is I don t mind re formatting it with black but I don t want to go and fix all the other lint and perhaps typing mypy issues it has so I want pants to ignore it for certain checks specifically flake8 amp mypy

polite-garden-50641 · Answer

will try that how do I figure out tag names

polite-garden-50641 · Answer

without digging thru the pants code base is there some sort of convention for those

hundreds-father-404 · Answer

you can name the tag whatever you want so long as you use a convention

hundreds-father-404 · Answer

it can be any arbitrary string You have to explicitly tell Pants to filter out those targets via ` tc tags= mytag ` though note the ` `

hundreds-father-404 · Answer

We could possibly make this automatic with the Target API by adding a new target type to say this acts like a Python library but please don t format or lint this It s not ready yet but very feasible