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Question

Trying to implement flake8 inside a workflow in github is causing me error because is not recognising .flake8 file.
It works perfectly from the terminal:
[flake8]
max-line-length = 79
exclude =
migrations
views.py
tests.py
serializers.py
models.py
When I try to apply it to the .yml file of Django it's giving error because doesn't take in account the config file:
name: Django CI
on:
push:
branches: [ "dev" ]
pull_request:
branches: [ "dev" ]
jobs:
build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
strategy:
max-parallel: 4
matrix:
python-version: [3.8, 3.9]
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout#v3
- name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
uses: actions/setup-python#v3
with:
python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
- name: Install Dependencies
run: |
cd scoretize_backend/
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
pip install -r requirements.txt
- name: Lint with Flake8
run: flake8 scoretize_backend/
- name: Run Tests
run: |
cd scoretize_backend/
python manage.py test
I've tried to add a new workflow just for this but same case:
name: flake8 Lint
on: [push, pull_request]
jobs:
flake8-lint:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
name: Lint
steps:
- name: Check out source repository
uses: actions/checkout#v2
- name: Set up Python environment
uses: actions/setup-python#v2
with:
python-version: "3.9"
exclude: "./scoretize_backend/api/models.py"
- name: flake8 Lint
uses: py-actions/flake8#v2
Tried to add with & exclude but it's not working. Could I config this with the .flake8 file? Thank you so much.

Answer 1

Thank you Anthony! I had the file inside the Django app but the workflow needed the file on the top of the directories. Solved.