pylint and the 'missing docstring' warning

[John Posner]

On 1/26/2010 9:22 AM, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
> John Posner wrote:
>> On 1/26/2010 8:43 AM, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Does anyone using pylint knows a way to make pylint ignore these
>>> 'missing docstring' warnings when the base class version of the method
>>> actually defines the docstring ?
>>> 'Cause my doc builder (epydoc) handle it properly and propagate
>>> docstrings if asked to. Too bad pylint is complaining about it.
>>> I don't want to deactivate this warning.
>>>
>>
>> Look for this setting in the pylint configuration file:
>>
>> # not require a docstring
>> no-docstring-rgx=__.*__
>>
>> -John
>>
>>
> If I'm no wrong this just disables docstring checks for methods matching
> __.*__
> I'd like to disable it for any method which base class version already
> defines the docstring.
>

I'm a Pylint newbie myself. The only (half-baked) idea I can come up 
with is to use a naming convention for such derived classes. For 
example, if all such class names ended with "_d" (ugh!), you could 
modify the configuration setting like this:

   no-docstring-rgx=(__.*__|.*_d)

-John