flake8 disable linter only for a block of code

There isn’t a way in flake8 to ignore a block of code

Your options are:

1. ignore each line that produces an error by putting # noqa: E501 on it

2. ignore the entire file (but this turns off all other errors as well) with a # flake8: noqa on a line by itself

3. ignore E501 in the entire file by using per-file-ignores:

   [flake8]
   per-file-ignores =
        path/to/file.py: E501
   

generally I’d prefer the third one, maybe even sequestering your long-strings into their own file to be ignored

disclaimer: I’m the current flake8 maintainer