How Do I Create a Pylintrc File
I Am Running Linux. Can I Do Something Like Pylint --Generate-Rcfile >. Pylintrc and Then Make Changes to the Resulting. Pylintrc File to Override the Default...
I am running linux. Can I do something like pylint --generate-rcfile > .pylintrc and then make changes to the resulting .pylintrc file to override the default settings? And if so should it be in my ~/ directory or should I put it in .pylint.d?
3 Answers
You may put it in:
/etc/pylintrcfor default global configuration~/.pylintrcfor default user configuration<your project>/pylintrcfor default project configuration (used when you'll runpylint <your project>)- wherever you want, then use
pylint --rcfile=<wherever I want>
Also notice when generating the rc file, you may add option on the command line before the --generate-rcfile, they will be considered in the generated file.
According to documentation here, we can use the following command to generate a pylint rc file with all its options present:
pylint --generate-rcfile > ${HOME}/.pylintrc
The above command will create the file .pylintrc under your home directory. Then you can tweak the rc file to fit your needs.
Windows user here. In my case, I just wanted to make an empty .pylintrc file but Windows doesn't allow it from Folder Explorer. So I had to run from command line:
echo dummyText > .pylintrc
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