How to make pylint a part of setup.py test process?

Question

I'm trying to add pylint checking of all .py files to the test process of setuptools (maybe I'm doing something wrong, please correct me). This is what I'm doing in setup.py:

class MyTest(test):
  def run_tests(self):
    import pytest
    import pylint
    if (pylint.run_pylint()):
        sys.exit(-1)
    if (pytest.main(self.test_args)):
        sys.exit(-1)
setup(
  tests_require = ['pytest', 'pylint'],
  cmdclass = {'test': MyTest},
...

)

When I run python setup.py test the output looks broken.. Am I doing it right?

Answer 1

Configuration working for me: In setup.py:

setup(
    name='...',
    setup_requires=['pytest-runner', 'pytest-pylint', ...],
    tests_require=['pytest', 'pylint']
    ...
    )

In setup.cfg:

[aliases]
test=pytest

[pytest]
addopts = --pylint --pylint-rcfile=...

Then you can run pylint just by typing:

python setup.py test