Project wide evaluation

[timeterror]

Pylint can evaluate code across a folder and subfolders, which provides insights into issues such as duplicate code. Being able to trigger pylint on a folder can provide users with a unique feature not available in the built-in linting of the vscode python extension. Additionally, users could apply this to gain insights into a project's general code quality, preferably by means of pylint's scoring feature.

[alkatar21]

I would also find it cool if you could either do folder or maybe just workspace linting.
Currently I sometimes use "python.analysis.diagnosticMode": "workspace", which I think is really slow because each file is fed individually to pylint and so some analysis like duplicate code still doesn't work.
Edit: I'm not sure if I had that wrong in my head at the time, or if it just doesn't work anymore? Only current files are analyzed.
One option I could think of would be a command that somehow lets pylint analyze the workspace?

[alkatar21]

I seem to have imagined it, but apparently pylint in the python extension did not react to "python.analysis.diagnosticMode": "workspace", either and then processed all files. At least I can't reproduce it right now with an older python extension version either. But it would be cool if there would be the possibility to let pylint analyze all files in the workspace and see them in the Problems View.

[AviSarmani]

I would love to see it as well.
Especially considering that it works that way when we install pylint manually.
The whole purpose of the extension(from my standpoint) was that the extension takes care of the installation and periodic update of pylint without the need to ask every developer to update to the latest version
A simple scenario would be:

• The developer writes some code with an error/warning but closes the file for some reason
• The day after pushes the code(as he/she forgot about the error/warning) and the CI fails
• Asking them to run it manually each time defeats the purpose
  And again, if pylint is already installed and "python.analysis.diagnosticMode": "workspace" on his local machine, this wouldn't be an issue

Please consider implementing this
Thanks