Can we have separate rules for exception builtins?

[cielavenir]

The source code

from requests.exceptions import ConnectionError

Raises A004 import statement "ConnectionError" is shadowing a Python builtin.

I understand that ConnectionError is a builtin, which is a subclass of OSError. However, ConnectionError is quite widely used term.

The more issue is, when we apply flake8-builtins in CI, we cannot make a new connection module which provides ConnectionError.

Can we have separate rules for such exception builtins?

/cc @felixvd @hemangandhi @ntohge

[gforcada]

Hi @cielavenir! thanks for using flake8-builtins and taking the time to make this report!

You can use the --builtins-ignorelist ConnectionError command line option, or configuration option to ignore builtins that you consider safe to override 👍🏾

Another option would be to change the code to:

from requests import exceptions

...

try:
  ...
except exception.ConnectionError
    ...

I hope this helps! 🍀