On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > >> David Stanek <dsta...@dstanek.com> writes: >> >> > I believe you just: >> > pylint --generate-rcfile > ~/.pylintrc >> > and then customize that file. >> >> This is the part that I'm asking how to do. What documentation is there >> on this configuration file and recommendations on how to modify it? > > For bonus points, I'm actually wanting to know how to configure it per > *project*, and applying that configuration for all programmers of that > project. Having one set of coding conventions per *user* seem like a > recipe for frustration. >
I find that the comments in the file it generates are enough. I haven't needed any more documentation than that. For project specific configuration I just keep a config file[1] in the project's source repository. Then make my build script[2] specify that file when I run 'paver lint'. [1] http://bitbucket.org/dstanek/snake-guice/src/tip/pylint.cfg [2] http://bitbucket.org/dstanek/snake-guice/src/tip/pavement.py -- David blog: http://www.traceback.org twitter: http://twitter.com/dstanek -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list