Files not being excluded via Atom, but command line flake8 does

This is the setup.cfg file. I know that the linter reads the file because ignore is honored so there’s something going on with the exclude. The first screenshot shows the linter raising an error in apollo/config/settings/local.py while the second screenshot clearly shows that this file was ignored. Let me know what additional info is needed.

Using Mac OS, virtualenvwrapper

[flake8]
ignore = D100, D210, D400, D413
exclude =
    .git,
    __pycache__,
    __init__.py,
    */migrations/*,
    apollo/config/settings/*.py,
    apollo/manage.py
max-line-length = 99
max-complexity = 10

Location of flake8: ~/Developer/.virtualenvs/apollo/bin/flake8

Project structure

.
├── apollo
│   ├── config
│   │   ├── __init__.py
│   │   ├── settings
│   │   │   ├── __init__.py
│   │   │   ├── base.py
│   │   │   ├── local.py
│   │   │   ├── production.py
│   │   │   ├── settings.py
│   │   │   ├── staging.py
│   │   │   └── test.py
│   │   ├── urls.py
│   │   └── wsgi.py
│   └── manage.py
└── setup.cfg

Screenshots

[lucasdf]

I am looking into this.

[Arcanemagus]

However, in any other situation where the configuration file is not in the project’s root, Flake8 does not recognize the file.

@lucasdf Ideally these providers should be “the same as running the tool in the CLI”, unfortunately what that actually means can get really tricky. I generally follow the rules of:

• “if you are in the directory of the file and run the CLI tool, the provider should match that”
• “if you are in the project root (as seen by Atom) and run the CLI tool, the provider should match that”

Which one of those a provider falls under is just the start of the trickiness 😉.

I think this provider should follow the second one, unless this issue is describing a situation where that doesn’t match what running flake8 in the CLI does, in which case we may need to change it?