On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 11:09 PM, Tim Stumbaugh <s...@hudson-trading.com> wrote: > We run pylint two ways: > > Interactively, in the same location as the .pylintrc file. We don't > explicitly pass it to pylint, and the normal routines for finding a > .pylintrc file work well here. There won't be an environment variable set > here (since it's just running within a user's shell session), but > config.PYLINTRC is correct. > Via arcanist's "arc lint" command, which changes the working directory to > the incorrect directory (i.e. pylint can't find an rc file it without help), > but with --rcfile. Arcanist has a specific configuration setting just for > pylint's rc file which we use. > > So while it's certainly possible to use environment variables to solve this > problem, I think that would be more complicated (given the two different > cases) and somewhat difficult to express as an init-hook. > > Here's another proposal: would it be amenable to move the function that > executes the init-hook to be a method on the linter class, instead of just a > pure function in the module? That way, the init-hook could have closer > access to the linter (via the "self" name, presumably) and therefore the > pylintrc file? > > Of course, if you'd prefer not to support this workflow, I completely > understand, and our workaround is workable (even if it's a bit brittle). > tjs >
Sure, that sounds like a solution that could work, feel free to send a pull request with it. Claudiu _______________________________________________ code-quality mailing list code-quality@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/code-quality
