Pylint is a Python source code analyzer looking for bugs and signs of poor quality.
Pylint is a Python tool that checks if a module satisfies a coding standard.
Questions tagged [pylint]
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Why Pylint is too slow while pep8 just takes a second to check the same code?
I do not understand why pylint takes about 5 minutes to check my code, where pep8 takes only 1 sec.
I use Mac and I have pylint 1.8.4 installed through conda install -c conda-forge pylint. Pylint is very slow either I use Terminal or the Spyder…
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Options for linting Cython code
I have a Cython module that I would like to lint PEP8 style, however pylint syntax errors on Cython cdef syntax. Does anyone have a suggestion about how to maintain Python coding standards for Cython code?
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For Pylint, is it possible to have a different pylintrc file for each Eclipse project?
I saw I can change it per Eclipse instance using this solution.
I would like to set it per project. Is it possible?
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pylint (pylint_django) does not work when --django-settings-module flag is specified
I am using newest version of pylint_django released few days ago:
Package Version
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pylint 2.7.4
pylint-django 2.4.3
pylint-plugin-utils …
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How to disable pylint warnings and messages on Visual Studio Code?
I am using a Mac and programming with Python on VS Code. After installing pylint, I had a bunch of warnings and messages. How do I disable these? I know about adding some lines to the pylintrc file, but I don't know where to find it or how to create…
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Pylinter in Sublime text 3.1.1 still doesn't use Python2.7
Here are my pylinter settings:
{
// When versbose is 'true', various messages will be written to the console.
// values: true or false
"verbose": false,
// The full path to the Python executable you want to
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Disable pylint message for a given module or directory
Is there a way to disable Pylint's duplicate-code message just for test files? All of the tests in our project are DAMP so the duplicated code is by design. I understand we can add # pylint: disable=duplicate-code throughout our tests, but would…
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Adding a path to sys.path in python and pylint
So. I'm aware that this question seems to have been asked to death, but none of the answers seem to address what I want to do.
I have a library in another directory that I want to include in a set of other projects that I run. I don't want that…
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Pylint Error Message: "E1101: Module 'lxml.etree' has no 'strip_tags' member'"
I am experimenting with lxml and python for the first time for a personal project, and I am attempting to strip tags from a bit of source code using etree.strip_tags().
For some reason, I keep getting the error message: "E1101: Module 'lxml.etree'…
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Make Pylint care about blank lines
I am not a stickler for most things pep-8, but certain things I personally prefer when writing code (as opposed to for work, where I would adhere to the style or lack thereof of the existing code base).
One thing I personally tend to follow is…
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What pylint options can be specified in inline comments?
I note that I can disable particular messages using a comment. For example, pylint by default complains about variable names of less than three letters. I can suppress that like this:
# pylint: disable=invalid-name
def some_string_operation(s): #…
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Reason for low Pylint ratings of Python standard library code
A friend told me about Pylint and just out of curiosity, I ran it against some of the standard library modules. To my surprise, the ratings were low. Here are a few runs:
os.py
Your code has been rated at 3.55/10
random.py
Your code has been rated…
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How to disable pylint no-self-use warning?
I'm coding in Python3 and using pylint to keep my code clean.
I want to define something like interface class, so I could add more functionality in a clean and concise way, however, pylint gets in the way of this goal.
Here's a sample method:
def…
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pylint: ignore multiple in rcfile
In my django project I'm using an externally written app which is badly written. Now I want to ignore this app from my pylint reporting, however I can't get pylint to ignore it. Pylint is already ignoring the South migrations, like…
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How to fix pylint warning "Abstract class not referenced"?
I have a Python class that raises "NotImplementedError" for a couple of methods and the class is inherited by a few other classes which are defined in their own files.
When I run Pylint on the file that has the abstract class, it always complains…
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