config not being loaded from ~/.config/pep8

[mcandre]

I followed the official documentation for configuration, placing my settings in ~/.config/pep8, in INI format.

When I put a tox.ini at my project root directory, pep8 successfully loads my custom configuration. But when I move the same settings to ~/.config/pep8, pep8 ignores them.

[noorul]

I am facing another problem could be related.

I have .ropeproject folder under project root folder which is specific to a software that I use. I was looking for options to make pep8 to exclude it. Adding it to ~/.config/pep8 is not helping as this is overwritten by tox.ini settings. As you can see pep8 doesn't care about global settings if local settings exists. https://github.com/jcrocholl/pep8/blob/master/pep8.py#L1760

[kynan]

That's not quite true: ~/.config/pep8 is read first, followed by any project specific settings in tox.ini or setup.cfg.

Note that you still need to add the [pep8] section heading.

[noorul]

@kynan Is your response to my problem?

[kynan]

@noorul both yours and @mcandre's.

[florentx]

I would need more information about the case which does not work.

The user configuration is merged with the project configuration at runtime, but if an option is present in both files, the project configuration takes precedence.

[IanLee1521]

Closing as there has been no update to this issue in almost 2 years.