[code-quality] How does pylint find files to process

[Mark E. Hamilton]

Hi,

I'm having trouble figuring out how pylint finds python files to 
process. If I find() all the .py files in my project and pass them on 
the command line pylint processes them correctly (after I set up 
PYTHONPATH, of course.)

However, if I just pass my project directory to pylint it fails with:

F:  1, 0: error while code parsing: Unable to load file 
'.../__init__.py' ([Errno 2] No such file or directory: 
'.../__init__.py') (parse-error)

If I create an empty __init__.py file it works, but only finds and 
processes some of the files. This seems to imply that I need to created 
__init__.py files in my entire tree. Is that the case?

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Mark E. Hamilton
Engineering Sciences Center
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Sandia National Laboratories