Pylint allows using a string mnemonic when disabling a particular warning and I want to enforce that style in my team, because I deem it way more readable, consider:
while True:
# pylint: disable=W0632
# pylint: disable=unbalanced-tuple-unpacking
But I cannot find a way to really enforce it as a linter option. Is there any?
While I tried to write a custom pylint checker to catch and report exactly that style of comments, I stumbled upon a pylint`s own informational checker use-symbolic-message-instead
, which implements this functionality!
To show this in the output you should add it to enable
list in the config, for example like this setup.cfg:
[pylint]
enable=use-symbolic-message-instead,
After enabling, message report looks as
************* Module module.py:13:0: I0023: 'W0221' is cryptic: use '# pylint: disable=arguments-differ' instead (use-symbolic-message-instead)
Note: However, this does not make pylint exit with non-zero code