Enable/disable a linter for a subset of files in a project

[danvk]

Current problem

I'd like to have the missing-function-docstring and missing-module-docstring warnings enabled for the main code of my project, but not for test files where they don't add much value:

"""Tests for foo.py"""

from foo import bar

def test_bar():
    """Tests for bar"""
    assert bar(1) == 2

There doesn't seem to be a way to do this at the moment, hence this feature request.

Desired solution

I'd like a way to disable these warnings for a subset of files.

There's already the --no-docstring-rgx option which I can use to disable missing-function-docstring for unit tests (which always start with test_ in my project). But there's no such option for missing-module-docstring.

Additional context

I asked about this on Stack Overflow and was referred here: How can I disable pylint's missing-module-docstring for unit tests?

A fix for #618 would also address my issue, but my issue could also be fixed more narrowly by adding a --no-docstring-file-rgx or some such.

[DanielNoord]

Closing a duplicate of #3767

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[danvk]

@DanielNoord thanks for the triage. Am I reading this correctly that a --no-docstring-file-rgx option would not be an acceptable (more targeted) solution to this specific issue?

[Pierre-Sassoulas]

I think this could be a substitute to having configuration per-directory which would solve the problem more generally. Maybe it's best if we focus on per-dir configuration instead. (#618)