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File-level flake8 comments ignore all errors

Until today, I was under the impression that including:

# flake8: noqa: F401

at the top of a Python module would ignore all F401 errors in the file.

However that isn’t true: the above directive ignores all errors in the file, not just F401: the : F401 part of the comment is silently ignored.

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