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On Fri, 2014-02-07 at 14:25 +0000, Matthew Booth wrote:
> I have a comment which references a long URL. The URL itself is longer
> than 80 characters. Jenkins has flagged this as a pep8 failure, because
> the line is longer than 80 characters.
> 
> This is an instance where in the past I have always applied common sense
> to the line length limit. You either have a long line or a broken URL.
> As the long line is more usable in this instance, it's the lesser of 2
> evils.
> 
> Is there a mechanism to to coerce Jenkins to allow it? Failing that, is
> there a mechanism to manually ignore a specific Jenkins failure? Failing
> that, is there a project convention for broken URLs?

You can also put a comment:

  # NO QA

at the end of the URL line to indicate to pep8/flake8 to ignore the
error, IIRC.

Best,
-jay