pylintrc is incompatible with recent pylint

[alanhoyle]

I started going through your book, and it appears that there are a few problems here with more recent pylint versions. After copying the pylintrc to ~/.pylintrc and checking my new dna.py program, it generates the following slew of warnings due to removed options or otherwise unrecognized options.

• *-name-hints give Unrecognized option found warnings
• many --disable give useless-option-value
• a few more --disable give unknown-option-value
• and the overgeneral-exceptions have a different warning that I'm not sure needs fixing...

After deleting all of the above I was able to get it to work without the warnings.

I don't know enough about pylint to know what the correct solution to these would be, otherwise I'd put in a pull request with my changes.

$ pylint --version
pylint 3.3.3
astroid 3.3.8
Python 3.12.8 (main, Dec  3 2024, 18:42:41) [Clang 16.0.0 (clang-1600.0.26.4)]
$ pylint dna.py
************* Module /Users/alanh/.pylintrc
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: E0015: Unrecognized option found: argument-name-hint, attr-name-hint, class-attribute-name-hint, class-name-hint, const-name-hint, function-name-hint, inlinevar-name-hint, method-name-hint, module-name-hint, variable-name-hint, no-space-check (unrecognized-option)
pylint: Command line or configuration file:1: UserWarning: 'Exception' is not a proper value for the 'overgeneral-exceptions' option. Use fully qualified name (maybe 'builtins.Exception' ?) instead. This will cease to be checked at runtime when the configuration upgrader is released.
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'apply-builtin' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'backtick' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'bad-python3-import' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'basestring-builtin' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'buffer-builtin' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'cmp-builtin' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'cmp-method' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'coerce-builtin' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'coerce-method' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'delslice-method' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'deprecated-str-translate-call' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'deprecated-string-function' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'dict-iter-method' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'dict-view-method' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'div-method' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'exception-message-attribute' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'execfile-builtin' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'file-builtin' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'filter-builtin-not-iterating' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'getslice-method' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'hex-method' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'idiv-method' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'import-star-module-level' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'indexing-exception' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'input-builtin' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'intern-builtin' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'invalid-str-codec' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'long-builtin' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'map-builtin-not-iterating' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'metaclass-assignment' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'next-method-called' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'no-absolute-import' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'nonzero-method' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'oct-method' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'old-division' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'old-raise-syntax' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'parameter-unpacking' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'print-statement' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'raising-string' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'range-builtin-not-iterating' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'raw_input-builtin' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'rdiv-method' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'reduce-builtin' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'reload-builtin' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'round-builtin' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'setslice-method' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'standarderror-builtin' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'sys-max-int' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'unichr-builtin' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'unicode-builtin' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'unpacking-in-except' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'using-cmp-argument' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'xrange-builtin' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: R0022: Useless option value for '--disable', 'zip-builtin-not-iterating' was removed from pylint, see https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/pull/4942. (useless-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: W0012: Unknown option value for '--disable', expected a valid pylint message and got 'eq-without-hash' (unknown-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: W0012: Unknown option value for '--disable', expected a valid pylint message and got 'locally-enabled' (unknown-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: W0012: Unknown option value for '--disable', expected a valid pylint message and got 'long-suffix' (unknown-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: W0012: Unknown option value for '--disable', expected a valid pylint message and got 'old-ne-operator' (unknown-option-value)
/Users/alanh/.pylintrc:1:0: W0012: Unknown option value for '--disable', expected a valid pylint message and got 'old-octal-literal' (unknown-option-value)

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Your code has been rated at 10.00/10 (previous run: 10.00/10, +0.00)

vs after my edits:

$ pylint dna.py

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Your code has been rated at 10.00/10 (previous run: 10.00/10, +0.00)

[alanhoyle]

As a sidenote, if there's ever a second edition, maybe put in something about virtualenvs/venvs/pyenv. I had another problem where the requirements.txt wouldn't install biopython because that's incompatible with Python 3.13, so I had to install 3.12 to get it to work.