Ignoring noqa lines

[bnomis]

When writing scripts to interact with django it's quite common to import django and call it's setup function in one line. Typically the top of a file looks like this:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import argparse
import sys
import time

import django; django.setup()  # noqa
from django.conf import settings

Ruff reports a "Module level import not at top of file Ruff (E402)" for the line from django.conf import settings and any following import lines because of the line import django; django.setup() # noqa. I was hoping the # noqa at the end of the line would cause the line to, essentially, be ignored but it seems not. Is there a way to tell Ruff that it's OK to ignore the line completely?

Thanks

[charliermarsh]

Unfortunately no, there isn't a way to tell Ruff to ignore a line for the purpose of determining the "start-of-file" import boundary.

The best you can do, I think, is turn off E402 for that module, like:

import argparse
import sys
import time

# ruff: noqa: E402
import django; django.setup()
from django.conf import settings

[charliermarsh]

(Something to consider when we revisit suppression comments more broadly.)