For many years now, I had been using Jetbrain’s IntelliJ Idea Ultimate happily also for my Python development.
Due to “legacy issues”, I had to apply many # noinspection annotations to my source code.
Now, that I switched to VS Code,
I want to get rid of actually 821 # noinspection annotations :-)
A simple search for # noinspection.* and a replacement with basically nothing would work,
but that would leave behind many blank lines.
And then flake8 would complain.
simple solution
search for ^# noinspection.*$\n,
ie expand the match with the newline character,
and then replace with nothing