pylint: Exclude directory

Question

Suppose I have the following directory structure:

adir/
  __init__.py
  afile.py
bdir/
  __init__.py
  bfile.py
  adir/
    __init__.py
    afile.py

I want to run pylint on everything, except the directory bdir/adir.

Is there any way to do this? Things that do not work:

--ignore=bdir/adir
--ignore_patterns=.*bdir/adir.*
Any of the answers in this similar post
--ignore=adir (this will ignore both of the adir's - not what I want).

It seems that pylint's ignore-filters only work with the name of the file or directory, not the full path.

Is there any way to achieve this?

Here is the line that you can add in your .pylintrc file: ```--ignore= ``` https://docs.pylint.org/en/1.6.0/run.html — rom_pep, Dec 18 '19 at 10:54
Possible duplicate of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36182847/pylint-disable-specific-warnings-for-specific-folder?noredirect=1&lq=1 — rom_pep, Dec 18 '19 at 10:59

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 06 '22 at 10:53

It should be --ignore-paths=bdir/adir. Works both on Windows and Linux.

Regarding --ignore_patterns=.*bdir/adir.*:

it contains typo: --ignore_patterns -> --ignore-patterns
according to documentation:

ignore-patterns

Files or directories matching the regex patterns are skipped. The regex matches against base names, not paths. The default value ignores emacs file locks

Default: ^.#

You specify not a base name (it includes parent folder).

pylint: Exclude directory

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