pylint goes silent if improperly configured

[dciborow]

I am using a .pylintrc file and have found that incorrect values cause pylint to go silent.

Here is an example pylintrc file that is incorrect because the value is wrapped in quotes.

[BASIC]
module-naming-style="any"

Once I remove the quotes, pylint begins working again.

[BASIC]
module-naming-style=any

It would be nice if a item in the PROBLEMS tab was reported if I have enabled pylint to run but is provided a configuration that causes it to fail.

[karthiknadig]

@dciborow Do you see anything in the Output > pylint logs. If you do see something there then we could possibly use that info to create a record in the Problems window.

[dciborow]

@karthiknadig ,

Here is the error log.

2023-03-12 00:24:45.617 [info] usage: pylint [options]
pylint: error: argument --module-naming-style: invalid choice: '"snake_case"' (choose from 'snake_case', 'camelCase', 'PascalCase', 'UPPER_CASE', 'any')

[bersbersbers]

This silent failure is a long-standing problem of pylint integration in VS Code, which has already lead to misinformation on how to silence specific pylint warnings, namely, by means that silenty break all of pylint. Just compare "--generate-members" (which does not exist as a pylint option) in https://stackoverflow.com/a/59675722/880783, which as collected 40 net upvotes so far.

[truher]

this issue bit me today too. if you think to look in the pylint output tab, you'll see the failure, but it would never occur to me to look there.