On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: >> The pylint message that always irked me was: >> >> W0142: Used * or ** magic >> >> "magic"? They're features of the language! > > It's a warning, because the use of that feature clobbers the static code > inspection you've asked for. PyLint is warning you “because the code > uses this feature, I can't say anything about undefined names”.
Then that ought surely to be an informational? It's not saying there's a problem in your code, it's pointing out that it can't check. Either that, or warnings from PyLint are all low-grade and should be ignored. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list