pylint disabling a single line of code just produces another pylint error

Question

The documentation in section 4.1 clearly states:

https://pylint.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq.html#message-control

4.1 Is it possible to locally disable a particular message?

Yes, this feature has been added in Pylint 0.11. This may be done by adding “#pylint: disable=some-message,another-one” at the desired block level or at the end of the desired line of code

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Great! but it doesn't work. Boo.

I get the the following pylint error for the following line of code

W: 26, 2: Redefining built-in 'zip' (redefined-builtin)

try:
  from itertools import izip as zip  # pylint: disable=bad-builtin
except ImportError:
  pass

But pylint just complains even louder about my attempt to shut it up:

E: 26, 0: Bad option value 'bad-builtin' (bad-option-value)

I've also tried the error code # pylint: disable=W0141 , that also produces a similar error.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

I have been in a similar situation.

Unsolvable pylint issue

class A:
    pass

There are many warnings in pylint for the code above, but I want to talk about old-style-class . In Python 2.7, you will get an old-style-class error. Of course, you can change your code like this:

class A(object):
    pass

However, you will receive a useless-object-inheritance warning in Python 3.

If you are writing a package compatible with python 2.7 and 3 and using pylint , then you are down.

Unavoidable bad-option-value

Yes, if it is accepted to disable either of old-style-class or useless-object-inheritance in a comment, you can go further.

In Python 2.7:

# pylint: disable=old-style-class
class A:
    pass

In Python 3:

# pylint: disable=useless-object-inheritance
class A(object):
    pass

Eventually, you will get a bad-option-value , just the same as this question.

Disable bad-option-value

I have tried, but bad-option-value can not be disabled locally in this case. I have to disable bad-option-value in a pylint configuration file, like .pylintrc .

[TYPECHECK]
disable=bad-option-value

Note : My pylint version is 1.9.4 in python 2.7, 2.2.2 in python 3.

Answer 2

啊，简单的答案，它应该是# pylint: disable=bad-option-value出现在括号中的错误消息中：

E: 26, 0: Bad option value 'bad-builtin' (bad-option-value)

Answer 3

When you get this message:

W: 26, 2: Redefining built-in 'zip' (redefined-builtin)

You have to disable the exact error message you are getting (the one in parenthesis):

try:
  from itertools import izip as zip  # pylint: disable=redefined-builtin
except ImportError:
  pass

That seems to work fine in pylint 2.5.

It can be annoying if you are testing with multiple versions of python or different venvs and the same code base and you get different errors. Be sure you fix the version to one version across all your builds/tests. It sounds like that may have happened here (not sure where you got bad-builtin from).