Setting up default pylint config.rc file in Windows

pylint, python, windows

Solution

I don't have a windows box at hand to test, but the code uses `os.path.expanduser('~')` to find the current user's home directory, and looks for a file calle `.pylintrc` in that directory.

According to the python documentation, on Windows, `expanduser` uses HOME and USERPROFILE if set, otherwise a combination of HOMEPATH and HOMEDRIVE. So my advice is to check in a Python interactive session what the following script outputs:

import os
print os.path.expanduser('~')

and put the configuration file as `.pylintrc` in that folder.

Alternatively, if you want to use different configuration files on a per project basis, you should know that if there is a file called `pylintrc` (without a leading dot) in the current working directory, then Pylint will use this one. If there is a file called `__init__.py` in the current working directory, Pylint will look in the parent directory until there is no such file and then look for a `pylintrc` configuration file. This is done so that you can maintain a per project config file together with you source code, and lauch Pylint from any directory in your source tree.

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