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-[flake8]
-# Documentation for flake8 http://flake8.pycqa.org/en/3.1.1/user/index.html
-
-# we should not ignore these mistakes !!!!!!!!
-
-ignore =
-    # Suppress - line too long (> 79 characters)
-    E501
-    # Suppress - Continuation line missing indentation or outdented
-    E127
-    # Suppress - Function is too complex
-    C901
-    # Bare except
-    E722
-    E126
-    E128
-    # Line break occurred before a binary operator (conflicting with black)
-    W503
-    # undefined file name excpetion
-    F821
-
-# We should not touch migrations that are already used, but check new migrations 
-per-file-ignores =
-    dojo/db_migrations/00*:F841
-    dojo/db_migrations/01*:F841