Pierre Sassoulas

Thank you for opening the issue. I added the discussion label because I don't know if we want to deviate from what argparse is doing and if it's worth it....

> Maybe this could be also a command line flag --scan-self and yet provide a list of file names, meaning that similarity scanning will also occur within each provided file...

Yes, symilar is embeded in pylint and raises ``duplicate-code`` messages.

Regarding the ``missing-class-docstring`` I don't think it's a false positive, you can document the constructor parameter in the constructor itself and still want a class docstring (you shouldn't document the...

The issue as originally stated is not a false positive, what should be implemented now is the check talked about in the last comment.

Hello @neesara sorry for the time it took to reply. Did you check [the contributor documentation](https://pylint.pycqa.org/en/latest/development_guide/contributor_guide/contribute.html#tips-for-getting-started-with-pylint-development) ?

> I'm never touching the dataclass code ever again... Sorry about this, our tests really were not exhaustive it seems. Don't worry. Astroid brains for very popular classes are hardcore...

This message is probably going to be disabled by default because there is a lot of example of place where it makes sense to have few public method (Django Meta...

Also true for exceptions see : #4464

I unpinned it because there was more pressing issues to advertise first (ranked according to number of thumbsup or heart reactions), it does not mean that I would not review...