diff --git a/.flake8 b/.flake8
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ed0a5d9872f06decc71a5fa0e7df3ba06835fd94
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.flake8
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+[flake8]
+count = True
+max-line-length = 79
+show-source = True
+statistics = True
diff --git a/.github/workflows/linting.yaml b/.github/workflows/linting.yaml
index 4e9c69a121ef0b5ed7a94af4575a272ee98a5028..aaa710163116c42276c5bd077e1dc8725aa446e1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/linting.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/linting.yaml
@@ -28,6 +28,6 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           # stop the build if there are Python syntax errors or undefined names
           #flake8 . --count --select=E9,F63,F7,F82 --show-source --statistics
-          flake8 . --count --max-line-length=79 --show-source --statistics
+          flake8 .
           # exit-zero treats all errors as warnings. The GitHub editor is 127 chars wide
           #flake8 . --count --exit-zero --max-complexity=10 --max-line-length=127 --statistics