How do I disable “missing docstring” warnings at a file-level in Pylint?

Question

Pylint throws errors that some of files are missing docstrings. I try and add docstrings to each class, method and function but it seems that Pylint also checks that files s

Answer 1

With pylint 2.4 and above you can differentiate between the various missing-docstring by using the three following sub-messages:

• C0114 (missing-module-docstring)
• C0115 (missing-class-docstring)
• C0116 (missing-function-docstring)

So the following .pylintrc file should work:

[MASTER]
disable=
    C0114, # missing-module-docstring