pylint ignore by directory

Question

Following is from pylint docs:

--ignore=<file>
    Add <file or directory> to the black list. It should be a base name, not a path. You may set this option multiple times. [current: %default]

Yet I'm not having luck getting the directory part work.

I have directory called migrations, which has django-south migration files. As I enter --ignore=migrations it still keeps giving me the errors/warnings in files inside migrations directory.

Could it be that --ignore is not working for directories?

If I could even use regexp to match the ignored files it would work, since django-south files are all named 0001_something, 0002_something...

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Since I could not get the ignore by directory to work I have resorted to simply putting # pylint: disable-msg-cat=WCREFI on top of each migration file, which ignores all pylint errors, warnings and infos.

Answer 1

You can then use Bash expansion to your advantage:

--ignore=migrations/{0000..1000}_something