# noqa is not working properly (or I missed sth?)

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In GitLab by @kreb on Jan 5, 2015, 04:07

Here is a simple py file with such code:

DEF_TOKENS = {                              # noqa
    # token                   is reqired?   # noqa
    'reportSchema'              : True      # noqa
}                                           # noqa

and a result of flake8 validation:

flake8 /home/prj/foo
/home/prj/foo/bar.py:4:32: E203 whitespace before ':'

Process finished with exit code 1

Hmm... seems to be an error - # noqa is not working in this case as documentation claims :(

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In GitLab by @sigmavirus24 on Jan 5, 2015, 05:54

The documentation is vague about this. # noqa will not ignore the particularly strenuous recommendations of pep8.

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In GitLab by @kreb on Jan 5, 2015, 06:26

So I find it as a big issue - I'd like to have such dictionary definition styled as a table with columns (and yes - I don't care PEP8 in this case, code readability is more important than styling) but flake8 forbids me to do it or forces me using # flake8: noqua so I loose possibility for validation of the rest of file.

Please fix it in next release...

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In GitLab by @sigmavirus24 on Jan 5, 2015, 06:47

That doesn't fit within the project's plans. We will not be fixing this in the next release.

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In GitLab by @spookylukey on Aug 26, 2015, 06:12

I created a plugin to do this: https://github.com/spookylukey/flake8-respect-noqa

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In GitLab by @sigmavirus24 on Mar 28, 2016, 14:22

mentioned in merge request !57