cannot disable flymake-mode in some buffers automatically

[sam-s]

Flymake is still enabled in files with

# Local Variables:
# flymake-mode: nil
# End:

I do want flymake in most files, I just want to exclude some of them.

[jorgenschaefer]

Elpy's elpy-module-flymake enables flymake automatically. If you do not want that, remove elpy-module-flymake from elpy-modules. You'll have to configure flymake to handle your setup above yourself, though.

[sam-s]

I want flymake for most but not all files.
How do I accomplish that?

[jorgenschaefer]

Configure flymake to be enabled the way you want, by configuring Emacs and flymake. Tell Elpy not to bother with flymake. :-)