[TIP] pylinrc in (py.test) testing directories

[Floris Bruynooghe]

On 27 October 2014 10:06, Floris Bruynooghe <flub at devork.be> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying out pylint for a new project and have a question about it's
> configuration.  As I understand it one can put a pylintrc file in a
> python package to customise the errors reported.  I thought this would
> be ideal to silence missing-docstrings in test directories, however
> this doesn't work with a typical py.test project layout:
>
> setup.py
> pylintrc
> my_pkg/
> my_pkg/__init__.py
> my_pkg/foo.py
> testing/
> testing/pylintrc
> testing/test_foo.py
>
> Notice the lack of __init__.py in the testing/ directory, AFAIK this
> is usually recommended in py.test so that it is not picked up by
> setuptools as a package and installed.  However it seems this means
> the pylintrc file is not used.

Never mind, it seems pylintrc is being picked up correctly for the
tests, not sure why I thought it wasn't.


Sorry for the noise,
Floris



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