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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 10:52:11 -0700
Subject: Re: pylint, was Re: pygame - importing GL - very bad...
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On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay, I have to ask... why? Does it have an exception for names of classes?

Yes, and for module-level functions.

> I don't like linters that enforce too much style. Catch things that
> might be mis-coded (like C's classic "if (x = 1)"), but don't complain
> about my names. They're MY business.

pylint is configurable though, so you can disable any warnings you
don't care about.  My pylint macro has a fairly large number of -d
options in it.