Ignore flake8 warning in SublimeLinter

Question

I have installed SublimeLinter-flake8. I would like to exclude the W191 warning when I am using SublimeLinter with flake8. I have checked the SublimeLinter docs and tried adding "--ignore W191" to my user settings file and reloaded plugins but I still get warned about the usage of tabs.

The following is my Packages/User/SublimeLinter.sublime-settings file.

// SublimeLinter Settings - User
{
 "linters": {
 "linter_name" : {
 "args" : "--ignore W191"
 }
 }
}

I checked this answer on StackOverflow but I would like it to be applied from the settings file.

Answer 1

The linter_name has to be the specific plugin you're looking to configure (in this case flake8) -- try this:

{
 "linters": {
 "flake8" : {
 "args" : "--ignore W191"
 }
 }
}

though realistically, it is probably better to configure your flake8 settings in flake8's configuration such that contributors to your project can work on your project without your specific sublimetext settings. I believe sublimetext's invocation of flake8 should be compatible with those configurations if I'm reading their code correctly

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disclaimer: though I'm not sure it's super relevant here, I currently maintain flake8

• Fiona: thank you so much, this worked, I will try to configure my settings in flake8 if its considered best practice
• Paul Tobias: When using with black it's better to use --extend-ignore instead of --ignore because the latter overrides the ignore list and re-enables errors which were disabled for black: stackoverflow.com/a/68172142