test: disable (some) flake8 formatting checks

We format with black, and there's no point in flake8 checking things
black takes care of.

Sponsored-by: author

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/check b/check
index b7c5164..7275f4e 100755
--- a/check
+++ b/check
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ def check_python(r):
     )
 
     # Test with flake8 if available. Flake8 finds Python files itself.
-    r.runcmd_maybe(["flake8", "check"] + py)
+    r.runcmd_maybe(["flake8", "--config=flake8.ini", "check"] + py)
 
     # Check formatting with Black. We need to provide the files to Python
     # ourselves.
@@ -336,7 +336,9 @@ def check_tooling(r):
         if not r.got_command(command):
             if command == "pandoc-citeproc":
                 if r.pandoc_is_newer():
-                    r.msg("     Fortunately pandoc is new enough for --citeproc, no need for pandoc-citeproc")
+                    r.msg(
+                        "     Fortunately pandoc is new enough for --citeproc, no need for pandoc-citeproc"
+                    )
                     continue
             sys.exit(f"can't find {command}, which is needed for test suite")
 
diff --git a/flake8.ini b/flake8.ini
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5cf16d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/flake8.ini
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[flake8]
+max-line-length = 999
+ignore = E203, E302, W503
\ No newline at end of file