How to break a long line in .pylintrc file?

Question

I have a PyLint configuration file, .pylintrc, with some rules defined.

However, for one rule, I have quite a few items which results in a very long line.

[TYPECHECK]
generated-members = XXX, YYY, ZZZ......

An example of a long line can be seen here on github: https://github.com/behave/behave.example/blob/master/pylintrc#L263

Is it possible to break the line to keep listing items on the next line(s)? I've tried to move the items to the next line, however, this seems to make the file invalid.

I don't know about pylint but in normal python an backslash \ at the end of a line will mark continuation in the next line. — mrCarnivore, Nov 17 '17 at 10:46
@mrCarnivore, tested to add the \ to break the line in `.pylintrc`. It makes the file invalid. — Alex Tereshenkov, Nov 17 '17 at 10:54

Nils Werner · Accepted Answer · 2017-11-17T11:03:06.420

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pylint parses the .pylintrc file using configparser, which says in its docs:

Values can also span multiple lines, as long as they are indented deeper than the first line of the value.

This means the solution is to use

[TYPECHECK]
generated-members =
  XXX,
  YYY,
  ZZZ......

edited Nov 17 '17 at 11:03

answered Nov 17 '17 at 10:55

Nils Werner

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How to break a long line in .pylintrc file?

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