diff --git a/.flake8 b/.flake8
index 0c64d009e..544d72956 100644
--- a/.flake8
+++ b/.flake8
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [flake8]
 
 max-line-length = 119
-ignore = W503
+ignore = W503, E203
 
 exclude =
     docs/conf.py
diff --git a/pylintrc b/pylintrc
index 0a2276fb8..94465fca4 100644
--- a/pylintrc
+++ b/pylintrc
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ disable=abstract-method,
         fixme,
         function-redefined,
         global-statement,
+        implicit-str-concat,
         import-error,
         import-outside-toplevel,
         import-self,
diff --git a/tests/test_request_cb_kwargs.py b/tests/test_request_cb_kwargs.py
index 5a3dae103..454b68942 100644
--- a/tests/test_request_cb_kwargs.py
+++ b/tests/test_request_cb_kwargs.py
@@ -106,8 +106,8 @@ class KeywordArgumentsSpider(MockServerSpider):
             self.crawler.stats.inc_value("boolean_checks", 3)
         elif response.url.endswith("/general_without"):
             self.checks.append(
-                kwargs == {}
-            )  # pylint: disable=use-implicit-booleaness-not-comparison
+                kwargs == {}  # pylint: disable=use-implicit-booleaness-not-comparison
+            )
             self.crawler.stats.inc_value("boolean_checks")
 
     def parse_no_kwargs(self, response):