Exclude test files from Pylint

Question

I have my unit tests living alongside my source code. i.e.

├── __init__.py
├── formatter.py
└── test_formatter.py

Is there a way to get Pylint to exclude all files prefixed with test_ from its analysis? The ignore configuration option doesn't seem to like wildcards.

Answer 1

This was introduced as a feature in Pylint 1.6 via the --ignore-patterns option.

So, to ignore the files above:

pylint myproject --ignore-patterns=test_.*?py

Answer 2

there is indeed no wildcard support. You may submit a feature request or even better a pull-request on https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint