On 04 avril 22:57, Alex Davies wrote:
> Hi All,
Hi,
> If I run pylint as root (I know, I know), it fails to find my .pylintrc file:
>
> [root@a b]# strace pylint --report n c.py 2>&1 | grep pylintrc
> stat("pylintrc", 0x7fff75600e30) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
> directory)
> stat(".pylintrc", 0x7fff75600e30) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
> directory)
> stat("/etc/pylintrc", 0x7fff75600e30) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
> directory)
>
> The cause seems to be in pylint/config.py (from latest tarball):
>
> 90 if 'PYLINTRC' in os.environ and exists(os.environ['PYLINTRC']):
> 91 pylintrc = os.environ['PYLINTRC']
> 92 else:
> 93 user_home = expanduser('~')
> 94 if user_home == '~' or user_home == '/root':
> 95 pylintrc = ".pylintrc"
> 96 else:
> 97 pylintrc = join(user_home, '.pylintrc')
>
> expanduser() will return a tilde in the case that expanduser isn’t
> able to figure out what the home directory is, but I’m not really sure
> why we want to set .pylintrc to be in the local directory in the case
> that /root is returned; expand user works just fine:
>
> >>> from os.path import expanduser
> >>> expanduser('~')
> '/root'
>
> Can anyone shed light on this? There is probably a good reason why
> that “/root” if block is there, which I would like to understand
> before considering if a patch to remove it makes sense.
This has been there for a while (before migration to hg...). I'm fine to remove
this particular case that I can't explain anymore.
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