The idea behind this message is for the sake of readability. We expect to find all the attributes an instance may have by reading its __init__ method. You may still want to split initialization into other methods though. In such case, you can simply assign attributes to None (with a bit of documentation) in the … Read more
The accepted answer won’t fix the error when importing own modules. Use the following setting in your workspace settings .vscode/settings.json: “python.autoComplete.extraPaths”: [“./path-to-your-code”], Reference: Troubleshooting, Unresolved import warnings
When is the use of len(SEQ) as a condition value problematic? What major situations is Pylint attempting to avoid with C1801? It’s not really problematic to use len(SEQUENCE) – though it may not be as efficient (see chepner’s comment). Regardless, Pylint checks code for compliance with the PEP 8 style guide which states that For … Read more
Pylint message control is documented in the Pylint manual: Is it possible to locally disable a particular message? Yes, this feature has been added in Pylint 0.11. This may be done by adding # pylint: disable=some-message,another-one at the desired block level or at the end of the desired line of code. You can use the … Read more
It is not true for logger statement because it relies on former “%” format like string to provide lazy interpolation of this string using extra arguments given to the logger call. For instance instead of doing: logger.error(‘oops caused by %s’ % exc) you should do logger.error(‘oops caused by %s’, exc) so the string will only … Read more
There are two options I’m aware of. One, change the PYTHONPATH environment variable to include the directory above your module. Alternatively, edit ~/.pylintrc to include the directory above your module, like this: [MASTER] init-hook=’import sys; sys.path.append(“/path/to/root”)’ (Or in other version of pylint, the init-hook requires you to change [General] to [MASTER]) Both of these options … Read more
pylint –generate-rcfile shows it like this: [MESSAGES CONTROL] # Enable the message, report, category or checker with the given id(s). You can # either give multiple identifier separated by comma (,) or put this option # multiple time. #enable= # Disable the message, report, category or checker with the given id(s). You # can either … Read more
Well, I am a bit curious, so I just tested the three myself right after asking the question 😉 Ok, this is not a very serious review, but here is what I can say: I tried the tools with the default settings (it’s important because you can pretty much choose your check rules) on the … Read more