pylint ignore by directory

Question

Following is from pylint docs:

--ignore=
    Add  to the black list. It should be a base name, not a path. You may set t         


        

Answer 1

As of right now, --ignore is not working on directories. (There's an open issue on https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/2686)

Turns out that only the file name, and not the whole path is tested against the black list. (As pointed in the same pull request: https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/2686#issuecomment-453450455)

The option --ignore-patterns has the same problem, but there was an attempt to fix it when I checked. (https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/pull/3266)

In your case, the best solution right now would be to use a regular expression to match the patterns you want in your files, which was also my case. As I am not really well-versed in regex, so I used https://regex101.com, which I recommend.