Create new variable inside of pylintrc file

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I'm coming from a world where we program mostly in C++ and our minimal Python code often uses a mix of Pythonic methods and C++ best practices.

As such I'd like to create some custom regexes for variable naming. Example:

^([a-z]+)(?:([A-Z]{1})([a-z]+))+$|^[A-Z][a-z]+(?:[A-Z][a-z]+)*$

matches both camelCase and PascalCase. Sometimes our methods, classes, filenames are PascalCase and sometimes they are camelCase. The above regex matches both.

Is it possible to create a pascalCase_or_CamelCase variable inside of always using the above? There are more examples like this but if one variable can be created based on the above I can follow suit for all the other overrides we need.

Hmmm. Getting some downvotes. Anyone care to comment on how to approve or where to move this question if this is not the correct forum? — drjrm3, Jul 14 '23 at 14:30

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 15 '23 at 12:23

Creating a variable in the pylintrc is not possible, the simpler thing to do is to copy paste your regex in each regex option.

You could make a pylint plugin defining your own predefined style, and then it's in python so you can make as many variable as you want. See https://pylint.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user_guide/messages/convention/invalid-name.html#predefined-naming-styles and https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/blob/main/pylint/checkers/base/name_checker/naming_style.py

Notice that there is a lot of documentation around invalid-name in the first provided link, creating a custom plugin should not be required.

Create new variable inside of pylintrc file

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