How to make it respect my .flake8 file??

[bnmnetp]

I have a .flake8 config file in the root of my project with copies in ~/ and ~/.config/flake8 no matter what I try I cannot get the python extension to respect my configurations.

Secondarily I tried turning pyflakes off completely and just using the flake8 plugin. But that does not work either. Even if I uninstall the flake8 extension and turn off pyflakes in the Python extension it still wants to give me errors.

Any hints or help ? Thanks!