The following is from the Pylint documentation:
--ignore=<file>
Add <file or directory> to the black list. It should be a
base name, not a path. You may set this option multiple
times. [current: %default]
Yet, I'm not having luck getting the directory part work.
I have directory called migrations, which has django-south migration files. As I enter --ignore=migrations, it still keeps giving me the errors/warnings in files inside the migrations directory.
Could it be that --ignore is not working for directories?
If I could even use a regular expression to match the ignored files, it would work, since django-south files are all named 0001_something, 0002_something...
Since I could not get the ignore by directory to work, I have resorted to simply putting # pylint: disable-msg-cat=WCREFI on top of each migration file, which ignores all Pylint errors, warnings, and information.
Answer
Adding the following to my .pylintrc files works with Pylint 0.25:
[MASTER]
ignore=migrations
My problems are with PyDev which (it seems) is not respecting my settings. This is due, I think, to the fact that it's running Pylint per-file, which I think bypasses 'ignore' checks - whether for modules/directories or files. The calls to Pylint from PyDev look like:
/path/to/site-packages/pylint/lint.py --include-ids=y /path/to/project/migrations/0018_migration.py