Add support of ignore comment on the top of the file

README.md

@@ -127,6 +127,11 @@ options:
   -s, --stdout          print changed text to stdout. defaults to true when formatting stdin, or to false otherwise
 ```
 
+To ignore the file, you can also add a comment to the top of the file:
+```python
+# autoflake: ignore
+import os
+```
 
 ## Configuration
 

autoflake.py

@@ -63,6 +63,8 @@
 
 MAX_PYTHON_FILE_DETECTION_BYTES = 1024
 
+IGNORE_COMMENT = "# autoflake: ignore"
+
 
 def standard_paths() -> Iterable[str]:
     """Yield paths to standard modules."""
@@ -904,6 +906,9 @@ def fix_code(
     if not source:
         return source
 
+    if source.lstrip().startswith(IGNORE_COMMENT):
+        return source
+
     # pyflakes does not handle "nonlocal" correctly.
     if "nonlocal" in source:
         remove_unused_variables = False

test_autoflake.py

@@ -2008,6 +2008,26 @@ class SystemTests(unittest.TestCase):
 
     """System tests."""
 
+    def test_ignore(self) -> None:
+        ignored_file_text = """
+# autoflake: ignore
+import re
+import os
+import my_own_module
+x = 1
+"""
+        with temporary_file(ignored_file_text) as filename:
+            output_file = io.StringIO()
+            autoflake._main(
+                argv=["my_fake_program", filename, "--stdout"],
+                standard_out=output_file,
+                standard_error=None,
+            )
+            self.assertEqual(
+                ignored_file_text,
+                output_file.getvalue(),
+            )
+
     def test_diff(self) -> None:
         with temporary_file(
             """\