How do I get PyLint to recognize numpy members?

Question

I am running PyLint on a Python project. PyLint makes many complaints about being unable to find numpy members. How can I avoid this while avoiding skipping membership checks.

From the code:

import numpy as np

print np.zeros([1, 4])

Which, when ran, I get the expected:

[[ 0. 0. 0. 0.]]

However, pylint gives me this error:

E: 3, 6: Module 'numpy' has no 'zeros' member (no-member)

For versions, I am using pylint 1.0.0 (astroid 1.0.1, common 0.60.0) and trying to work with numpy 1.8.0 .

Answer 1

If using Visual Studio Code with Don Jayamanne's excellent Python extension, add a user setting to whitelist numpy:

{
    // whitelist numpy to remove lint errors
    "python.linting.pylintArgs": [
        "--extension-pkg-whitelist=numpy"
    ]
}