How do I disable a Pylint warning?

Question

I'm trying to disable warning C0321 ("more than one statement on a single line" -- I often put if statements with short single-line results on the same line), in Pylint 0.21.1 (if it matters: astng 0.20.1, common 0.50.3, and Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Sep 15 2010, 16:22:56)).

I've tried adding disable=C0321 in the Pylint configuration file, but Pylint insists on reporting it anyway. Variations on that line (like disable=0321 or disable=C321) are flagged as errors, so Pylint does recognize the option properly. It's just ignoring it.

Is this a Pylint bug, or am I doing something wrong? Is there a way around this?

I'd really like to get rid of some of this noise.

Answer 1

pylint --generate-rcfile shows it like this:

[MESSAGES CONTROL]  # Enable the message, report, category or checker with the given id(s). You can # either give multiple identifier separated by comma (,) or put this option # multiple time. #enable=  # Disable the message, report, category or checker with the given id(s). You # can either give multiple identifier separated by comma (,) or put this option # multiple time (only on the command line, not in the configuration file where # it should appear only once). #disable= 

So it looks like your ~/.pylintrc should have the disable= line/s in it inside a section [MESSAGES CONTROL].