Pylint not running as expected in VScode

Question

When I am running via shell a pylint:

$ pylint decorator.py 
No config file found, using default configuration
************* Module decorator
C:  7,         


        

Answer 1

I had a similar problem where flake8 worked in VSCode but pylint didn't. Here are all the steps I had to check for pylint to start working:

1. Your .vscode\settings.json file enables linting by pylint (this can be hand edited or by running these command palette commands: Python: Enable Linting and Python: Select Linter)

   "python.linting.enabled": true

   "python.linting.pylintEnabled": true

2. from the command line (while in virtual environment) confirming that pylint and pylint-django are installed.

   pip show pylint

   pip show pylint-django

3. Add a .pylintrc file to your root directory that includes these lines.

   [MASTER]

   load-plugins=pylint_django

(NOTE: you can replace this pylintrc file with the following line in settings.json.)

"python.linting.pylintArgs": ["--load-plugins", "pylint_django"]

For more info about using pylint in VSCode, see https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/linting#_pylint

For more info about the pylintrc file, see https://docs.pylint.org/en/1.6.0/run.html#command-line-options