how to tell pylint to ignore certain imports?

python pylint

Oz123 · Mar 7, 2012 · Viewed 36.5k times · Source

I'm developing software for Windows with Python. I am developing on Linux, and I am using Pylint to check my code. I can't get rid of the error:

F| Unable to import '_winreg'

This is obvious - Python on Linux does not have this module.

So, what do I have to put in my .pylintrc to ignore this error?

Thanks in advance, Oz

EDIT:

Documentation says:

:F0401: *Unable to import %r*
  Used when pylint has been unable to import a module.

Now I need to find how to use it ...

Partial solution:

pylint --disable=F0401 <filename>

I am still looking for a way to do via .pylintrc.

Answer

Just run into this as well with the following code:

 8: if os.name == 'nt':
 9:    import msvcrt
10: else:
11:    import fcntl

pylint failed the build with this error:

E:  9, 4: Unable to import 'msvcrt' (import-error)

The solution is available since pylint 0.10:

 9:    import msvcrt  # pylint: disable=import-error