On Tue Jun 10 2014 at 4:17:38 AM, Sylvain Thénault <sylvain.thenault@logilab.fr> wrote:
On 09 juin 19:52, Brett Cannon wrote:
> I'm trying to whitelist checkers from a pylintrc file for pylint, but when
> I have:
>
>   [MESSAGES CONTROL]
>   disable=all
>   enable=old-style-class
>
> nothing is outputted. When I comment out the `disable` line then everything
> is outputted. And if I set `disable` to something like `no-init` then that
> works, so I know the pylintrc file is working properly.
>
> How can I get the equivalent of --disable=all specified in a pylintrc file
> so I can select exactly what checkers I want to run?

This is probably due to the following bug in logilab-common
https://www.logilab.org/ticket/185648

hopefuly it's targeted for 0.62 which should be released soon.

Great! Then I will continue to move forward with my pylint explorations with the assumption that this will work at some point.