pylint complains about empty __init__.py

Question

I get this weird error:

$ epylint .
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 mysubdir/__init__.py:1: fatal (F0010, parse-error, ) error while code parsing: Unable to load file 'mysubdir/__init__.py' ([Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'mysubdir/__init__.py')

Note that mysubdir/__init__.py does exist and contains a single empty line.

Note that

$ epylint mysubdir

works just fine and produces no messages.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

The problem is you're running pylint in your workdir (pylint .). Pylint will expect an init.py file there.

Take a look at this discussion.

Your best shot is to select the directories you want to lint. If you can't do so (ie: Django project). You'll have to make a custom workaround like in the thread.