What does pylint's “Too few public methods” message mean

Question

I\'m running pylint on some code, and receiving the error \"Too few public methods (0/2)\". What does this message mean? The pylint docs are not helpful:

Answer 1

If you are extending a class, then my suggestion is to systematically disable this warning and move on, e.g., in the case of Celery tasks:

class MyTask(celery.Task):  # pylint: disable=too-few-public-methods                                                                                   
    """base for My Celery tasks with common behaviors; extends celery.Task

    ...             

Even if you are only extending a single function, you definitely need a class to make this technique function, and extending is definitely better than hacking on the third-party classes!