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+# Some PEP8 deviations are considered irrelevant to stub files:
+# (error counts as of 2017-05-22)
+# 17952 E704 multiple statements on one line (def)
+# 12197 E301 expected 1 blank line
+#  7155 E302 expected 2 blank lines
+#  1463 F401 imported but unused
+#   967 E701 multiple statements on one line (colon)
+#   457 F811 redefinition
+#   390 E305 expected 2 blank lines
+#     4 E741 ambiguous variable name
+
+# Nice-to-haves ignored for now
+#  2307 E501 line too long
+
+# Other ignored warnings
+#       W504 line break after binary operator
+
+[flake8]
+ignore = F401, F403, F405, F811, E301, E302, E305, E501, E701, E704, E741, B303, W504
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