Python: Pylint

Created: September 05, 2020

Generate a .pylintrc:

pylint --generate-rcfile > $HOME/.pylintrc

Enabling/Disabling Checks

Pylint is too opinionated by default and tries to suggest restrictive design changes that don’t actually make much sense in specific contexts.
Unwanted checks can be disabled in pylintrc.
The enable= and disable= sections take a comma-separated list of checks to disable.
Pylink check reference.
disable=all can be used to disable everything then enable it selectively.

Current disabled checks:

disable=unused-variable,
too-many-branches,
too-many-public-methods,
too-many-instance-attributes,
missing-function-docstring

pylint --help-msg=ERROR_MESSAGE

Example:

pylint --help-msg=anomalous-backslash-in-string