Why does Pylint object to single-character variable names?

Question

I\'m still getting used to Python conventions and using Pylint to make my code more Pythonic, but I\'m puzzled by the fact that Pylint doesn\'t like single character variable na

Answer 1

Nowadays there is also an option to override regexp. I.e., if you want to allow single characters as variables:

pylint --variable-rgx="[a-z0-9_]{1,30}$" 

So, Pylint will match PEP8 and will not bring additional violations on top. Also you can add it to .pylintrc.