Question

I’m using South for migration in my Django project. When I run Pylint on my project I get a bunch of errors from the migration files. How can I exclude migration files from Pylint?

I’m on a Windows system so I can’t use filename exclusions in the Pylint options. I’ve tried to resort to adding # pylint: disable-msg-cat=WCREFI to the top of each of my migration files. It seems very kludgy and seems to be the last resort but this documented directive doesn’t work and I get the error [E] Unrecognized file option 'disable-msg-cat'.

Answer 1

Adding the following to the .pylintrc file did it.

[MASTER]

# Add <file or directory> to the black list. It should be a base name, not a
# path. You may set this option multiple times.
ignore=tests.py, urls.py, migrations