On 30 août 15:04, Martin Pool wrote:
> (I apologize in advance if this is a faq, but I have searched and
> didn't find it.)

no worry, this is not, and wouldn't be a problem even if it was ;)
 
> Some people on my work project have complained that pylint
> suppressions are hard in code review, because they don't remember the
> meaning of all of the numbers.
> 
> It seems to me that it would be nice if it was possible to use short
> symbolic names instead, similar to gcc warnings, like Wunused-imports
> or Wunreachable.
> 
> Obviously there would still be times when you want a comment or
> discussion of _why_ the warning is suppressed or whether there is a
> better alternative, but sometimes just knowing the meaning would be
> enough.
> 
> If I sent a patch that added names alongside the numbers, would that
> be accepted?  Specifically I propose either would be accepted in
> suppression comments, and there would be an option to choose between
> them in the output.  The default could remain the same.

This is imo a good idea and a patch allowing to swich to such output using 
a command line option would be welcome.

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