.pylintrc

[MESSAGES CONTROL]
disable=fixme,
    # docstrings aren't required (yet).
    missing-function-docstring,
    missing-module-docstring,
    missing-class-docstring,

    # formatting checks that we're handling with black/isort
    wrong-import-order,
    wrong-import-position,
    ungrouped-imports,
    line-too-long,
    superfluous-parens,
    trailing-whitespace,

    # we'll probably never enable these checks
    invalid-name,
    import-error,
    duplicate-code,

    # disable code-complexity checks for now
    # TODO: should we configure the thresholds for these rather than just disable?
    ; too-many-function-args,
    ; too-many-instance-attributes,
    ; too-many-locals,
    ; too-many-branches,
    ; too-many-nested-blocks,
    ; too-many-statements,
    ; too-many-arguments,
    ; too-many-return-statements,
    ; too-many-lines,
    ; too-few-public-methods,

    # many of these checks would be great to include at some point, but would
    # require some changes to our codebase
    ; useless-return,
    ; protected-access,
    ; arguments-differ,
    ; unused-argument,
    ; unused-variable,
    ; abstract-method,
    ; no-name-in-module,
    ; attribute-defined-outside-init,
    ; redefined-outer-name,
    ; import-outside-toplevel,
    ; no-else-continue,
    ; no-else-return,
    ; no-else-raise,
    ; no-member,
    ; super-with-arguments,
    ; unsupported-assignment-operation,
    ; inconsistent-return-statements,
    ; duplicate-string-formatting-argument,
    ; len-as-condition,
    ; cyclic-import,

    # producing false positives
    ; unexpected-keyword-arg,
    ; not-an-iterable,
    ; unsubscriptable-object
[SIMILARITIES]
min-similarity-lines=20