setup.cfg not working

[euphoniumlover]

ⓘ Summary

I've tried to setup a setup.cfg for pylint and it's not doing anything.

👣 Reproduction steps

1. Default value for Configuration File Path %PROJECTPATH/setup.cfg
2. Use a setup.cfg in root of your project containing exactly this:

#[pylint]
#disable = D107,R0913

#[flake8]
#max-line-length = 82

I also tried using #[pylint:pydocstyle] or

#[pylint]
#[pydocstyle]

but none of those work.

🦄 Expected behaviour:

For the error codes listed to be disabled like normal, and the expected line length to be adjusted.

🐞 Actual behaviour:

The errors are still listed.

📷 Screenshot:

💬 Comment:

Thank you so much for your work every other atom linter was crashing and getting tons of error messages and are unmaintained. I was almost doubting atom's ability until I saw this. I can deal with it for now but if you could fix this (or tell me what stupid mistake I made) that would be great as google hasn't been helpful with solving this problem.

Thanks!

[elarivie]

Hello @Th3OneAndOnly

Effectively writing the setup.cfg file can be tricky since there is barely no documentation about it within the different lint tools. And some of them have a very strange expectation/behavior about its content (FYI see #1) for a good example of unexpected syntax

Here is a setup.cfg file which I am using in one of my project:

setup.cfg

you can use and adapt it to your need.

You probably do not need all the settings that it contains but it will provide you a very good start to get you up to speed.

Let me know if it solves the issue that you have

[euphoniumlover]

Thank you. I did not know that the #'s weren't needed, since any existing documentation uses them for some reason.