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

Although this is an old question it showed up at the top of the list when we were searching stack overflow so i am posting our solution here in the hopes that it might be useful to someone else.

To ignore subdirectories under a directory tree named 3rdparty, we added the following ignore-patterns entry to the [MASTER] entry in .pylintrc.

# Add files or directories matching the regex patterns to the blacklist. The
# regex matches against base names, not paths.
# Ignore all .py files under the 3rdparty subdirectory.
ignore-patterns=**/3rdparty/**/*.py

This fixed the problem for pylint-1.7.1.

We were originally confused by the "base names" clause in the comments. Apparently it does accept paths with wildcards. At least it did for us. Your mileage may vary.