Auto merge of #29920 - sagudev:py-fixups, r=mrobinson

Standalone Flake8 config

Instead of passing flake8 config via CLI flags, I extracted them in flake8 config, so IDE tools can also pick it up.

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2 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/.flake8 b/.flake8
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5815831b1af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.flake8
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+[flake8]
+ignore =
+    W291,  # trailing whitespace; the standard tidy process will enforce no trailing whitespace
+    W503,  # linebreak before binary operator; replaced by W504 - linebreak after binary operator
+    E501,  # 80 character line length; the standard tidy process will enforce line length
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/python/tidy/tidy.py b/python/tidy/tidy.py
index 1e5de4080c0..e0d09f4a7ea 100644
--- a/python/tidy/tidy.py
+++ b/python/tidy/tidy.py
@@ -325,15 +325,9 @@ def check_flake8(file_name, contents):
     if not file_name.endswith(".py"):
         return
 
-    ignore = {
-        "W291",  # trailing whitespace; the standard tidy process will enforce no trailing whitespace
-        "W503",  # linebreak before binary operator; replaced by W504 - linebreak after binary operator
-        "E501",  # 80 character line length; the standard tidy process will enforce line length
-    }
-
     output = ""
     try:
-        args = ["flake8", "--ignore=" + ",".join(ignore), file_name]
+        args = ["flake8", file_name]
         subprocess.check_output(args, universal_newlines=True)
     except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
         output = e.output