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-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright © 2022 Idiap Research Institute <contact@idiap.ch>
-#
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
-
-[flake8]
-max-line-length = 80
-ignore = E501,W503,E302,E402,E203