yesqa
Automatically remove unnecessary `# noqa` comments.
Decision gist · record as of 2026-08-14
Yes. yesqa solves a real maintenance problem—noqa comment drift—with low install friction, active maintenance, permissive licensing, and no known vulnerabilities. It's most valuable in teams or projects that use flake8 and want to keep suppression comments honest over time.AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying
Before you install
- Requires Python 3.8 or later; flake8 must be installed (included as a runtime dependency).
- Low friction: pure Python wheel with only two runtime dependencies (flake8 and tokenize-rt).
- Actively maintained as of July 2026 with consistent commit history.
License · maintenance · safety
MIT (permissive) — MIT license (permissive) places no restrictions on use, modification, or distribution in commercial or private projects.
last release 2023-06-10 (1161 days) · last repo commit 2026-07-15 · 264 stars
0 known vulnerabilities (OSV.dev, 2026-08-14) · 132,383 downloads/mo, #11,554 on PyPI
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pip install yesqa
# Run on a Python file
yesqa your_file.py
# Or use as a pre-commit hook by adding to .pre-commit-config.yaml:
# - repo: https://github.com/asottile/yesqa
# rev: v1.5.0
# hooks:
# - id: yesqa- Whether yesqa correctly handles all flake8 plugin combinations when additional_dependencies are specified.
- Performance characteristics on very large codebases or projects with many noqa comments.
What it is and what it does
yesqa is a maintenance tool that scans Python code for `# noqa` comments and removes those that are no longer needed. It integrates with flake8 to determine which suppressions are actually suppressing violations; if a comment no longer matches any active violation, it gets removed. This is useful when your linting configuration changes (e.g., you increase max line length), when code is refactored and violations disappear, or when noqa comments were added by mistake.
The tool works as a standalone command-line utility or as a pre-commit hook, making it easy to enforce clean suppression comments across a team or CI pipeline. It depends on flake8 for violation detection and tokenize-rt for safe comment manipulation, and supports both CPython and PyPy on modern Python versions.
Use it for
- Clean up noqa comments after raising your flake8 line-length limit or disabling certain checks.
- Remove stale suppressions when refactoring code that previously violated linting rules.
- Enforce hygiene in pre-commit hooks to prevent accumulation of dead noqa comments over time.
- Audit a codebase to find noqa comments that were added by mistake and no longer serve a purpose.
- Integrate into CI to automatically flag or remove unnecessary suppressions during code review.
Worth the install?
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Yes.
yesqa solves a real maintenance problem—noqa comment drift—with low install friction, active maintenance, permissive licensing, and no known vulnerabilities. It's most valuable in teams or projects that use flake8 and want to keep suppression comments honest over time.
Install
yesqa on PyPI
Before you install
Low friction: pure Python wheel with only two runtime dependencies (flake8 and tokenize-rt). Actively maintained as of July 2026 with consistent commit history.
Requires Python 3.8 or later; flake8 must be installed (included as a runtime dependency).
License in practice
MIT license (permissive) places no restrictions on use, modification, or distribution in commercial or private projects.
Quickstart
pip install yesqa
# Run on a Python file
yesqa your_file.py
# Or use as a pre-commit hook by adding to .pre-commit-config.yaml:
# - repo: https://github.com/asottile/yesqa
# rev: v1.5.0
# hooks:
# - id: yesqaVerify before relying
- Whether yesqa correctly handles all flake8 plugin combinations when additional_dependencies are specified.
- Performance characteristics on very large codebases or projects with many noqa comments.
Package facts
| License | MIT permissive |
| Python support | Supports the current Python release >=3.8 |
| Install friction | Low. Pure-Python wheel |
| Runtime dependencies | 2 packagesflake8tokenize-rt |
| Maintenance | Actively maintained 1,161 days since the last release |
| Last repo commit | |
| First released | |
| Downloads | 132,383 / month, #11,554 on PyPI 30-day window, as of 2026-08-14 |
| Known vulnerabilities | None known OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-14 |
| Classifiers | License :: OSI Approved :: MIT LicenseProgramming Language :: Python :: 3Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: OnlyProgramming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPythonProgramming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: PyPy |
Evidence: yesqa-1.5.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
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