I'm a big fan of pylint's built-in docstring checker. I'm very happy to require docstrings on all my classes, all my functions, and all my modules.
What I don't like, however, is that pylint also wants docstrings on all my test modules and all my pytest test functions. This leads to low-value docstrings like the following:
"""Tests for foo.py"""
from foo import bar
def test_bar():
"""Tests for bar"""
assert bar(1) == 2
I've been able to disable the function-level docstring requirement using no-docstring-rgx in my .pylintrc file:
[MASTER]
no-docstring-rgx=^(_|test_)
This takes care of the missing-function-docstring / C0116 error.
But I haven't been able to find a way to disable the missing-module-docstring / C0114 error just for files ending with _test.py. Is this possible with pylint?
This sound like a new feature, I don't think an issue is opened for it. You can do so here