The configuration files for Jupyter produce many lint errors now

[NeilGirdhar]

The generated configuration files don't adhere to the default behavior of standard linters. In particular:

• Every # should be followed by exactly one space (there should never be any ##).
• Every # noqa should be marked with its rule number (in this case, F821). And,
• there should be no trailing whitespace.

(This appears to have been changed recently.)

I'm not sure if this was the correct project, but I spent about 30 minutes searching through the various projects.

[Carreau]

The "too many #", or comment should start with #- seem like a non issue, and should be ignored in the linter.

I think the trailing whitespace comes from the traitlets package.

(and no worries if you don't find the right package, it some dark magic)

[NeilGirdhar]

Thanks for taking a look at this!

The "too many #", or comment should start with #- seem like a non issue, and should be ignored in the linter.

Feel free to do as you like, but if it were me, I'd make them just # Heading. or # # Heading. Just to avoid the linter errors.

[Carreau]

I believe the point of having 2 #, is if you uncomment the whole file, it is still valid python. oh you make it just a single pound for headers, it is not the case anymore.

[NeilGirdhar]

I don't understand? If you uncomment # the following:, that line won't be valid?

[Carreau]

Ha you are right. Then I guess it's to distinguish header from description. I guess we could use a different marker for header then, I'm pretty sure a decade ago it was different and made to block comment/ uncomment.

[NeilGirdhar]

Sounds great to me