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Disable spark transformations inside try except warning

Kayla — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:35:16 GMT

I'm wondering if there's a way to suppress certain errors? I have a lot of spammy yellow underlining from this one warning, and it doesn't seem that the warning behaves properly. Transformation inside try/except block is lazy, fine, I have actions on the dataframe ALSO in the try/except so this is irrelevant.

I'm also a little confused what it's actually coming from. It says it's from databricks-flint, which sounds like a linter, but searching it is giving me a time-series library?

Warning message:
Spark transformations inside try/except are lazy and will not raise exceptions. Move the triggering action (e.g., .count(), .show(), .collect()) inside the try block instead.databricks-flint(SCPAP005)

Re: Disable spark transformations inside try except warning

adnan_alvee — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:34:09 GMT

Can u try this in your toml file?

[tool.databricks.flint] ignore = ["SCPAP005"]

Re: Disable spark transformations inside try except warning

Kayla — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:04:41 GMT

So...I don't have one of those? Guessing you mean pyproject.toml which I just added with your suggestion, and no change.

Re: Disable spark transformations inside try except warning

masonreed11 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:06:58 GMT

If your action (count(), collect(), show(), etc.) is already inside the try block, this sounds like a false positive. The warning is likely from a Databricks inspection rather than the Flint time-series library. Check if inspection SCPAP005 can be disabled or its severity changed in your IDE, and if not, consider reporting it with a small reproducible example so the maintainers can investigate.

Re: Disable spark transformations inside try except warning

Kayla — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:50:54 GMT

I'm seeing this in the Databricks web editor, not my own IDE environment.
I'd disable it if I knew how, but I can't find any documentation for what it's coming from. If you google SCPAP005, all you get is this post and CPAP machines. Likewise, I'd report it to the maintainers if I knew who they were.