Disable specific issues using filename pattern

[ghost]

I often name my functions with an underscore prefix, and then I test them from an accompanying test_thing.py file. Pylint warns me about protected-access in the test file.

I think I want to prevent pylint from complaining about "protected-access" in test_*.py files. Pylint has ignore-patterns=test_.*.py, but I want to ignore test_*.py only for a particular warning, "protected-access". Currently I'm using # pylint: disable=protected-access at the top of each test file, but it'd be nice to avoid redundancy by specifying an ignore pattern for specific issues.

Is there a way to do that? If not, I think this feature might be useful.

[PCManticore]

We don't support it, but we probably won't support this feature too soon. There's some work under way though to support multiple configuration files per directory, which means that you can at least control some of the error messages per each directory. See #1988 for more details.