pylint, was Re: pygame - importing GL - very bad...

[someone]

On 01/02/2013 01:07 PM, Peter Otten wrote:
> someone wrote:
>
>> On 01/01/2013 01:56 PM, Peter Otten wrote:
>
>>> from module import * # pylint: disable=W0622
>>
>> Oh, I just learned something new now... How come I cannot type "#pylint:
>> enable=W0622" in the line just below the import ?
>
> With what intended effect?

If I have a section with A LOT OF warnings and I don't want those in 
that section to show up ? Isn't that valid enough?

>> Another thing is that I don't understand this warning:
>>
>> Invalid name "original_format" (should match (([A-Z_][A-Z0-9_]*)|
>>   > (__.*__))$)
>>
>> I get it everywhere... I don't understand how it wants me to label my
>> variables... Maybe I should disable this warning to get rid of it...
>
> pylint wants global names to be uppercase (what PEP 8 recommends for
> constants) or "special" (two leading and two trailing underscores):
>
> THATS_OK = 42
> __thats_ok_too__ = object()
> but_thats_not = "spam"

OMG... I don't want to type those underscores everywhere... Anyway, 
thank you very much for explaining the meaning of what it wants...