[Python-apps-team] Bug#541063: Bug#541063: pylint: --enable-msg does not work

[Alexandre Fayolle]

forwarded 541063 http://www.logilab.org/9992
tag 541063 +upstream
severity 541063 normal
thanks

On Tuesday 11 August 2009 15:04:11 Francois Gouget wrote:
> Package: pylint
> Version: 0.18.0-1
> Severity: important
>
>
> So I have a set of Python files with quite a lot of warnings which will
> take qute some time to fix. So for now I'd like to have make call pylint to
> report only errors and the warning W0611.
>
> The obvious way to do so would be:
>
>    pylint -e --enable-msg=W0611 ...
>
> But that does not work. In fact it turns our that once a warning has been
> disabled through -e, --disable-msg-cat or --disable-msg, it cannot be
> reenabled, no matter what order the options are in. The disable directives
> always have priority.
>
> So as is --enable-msg is completely useless and it's not possible to enable
> a specific message.

I've submitted your issue in Pylint's bugtracker (see above). 

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