Configuration file `.pycodestyle.ini` is not loading while `pycodestyle` command is executed.

[realFranco]

@henry0312 thank you for this plugin.

Disclaimer

This issue is for expose a behaviour that seems to me is not ok.

Description

Intentionally I create a tiny unit test and a set of rules using the setup.cfg and .pycodestyle.ini configuration files.

When setup.cfg is defined in the project root directory the pycodestyle work smoothly, when the .pycodestyle.ini exist in favor of setup.cfg does not.

I want to undertand why is that, maybe I am doing something out of bounds.

Technical notes

The next lines will expose source code and elements that describe more easily this current issue, at the end you could see the results.

Python version

6f7e8beeb7fd:/app# python3 --version
Python 3.11.8

Python packages installed

6f7e8beeb7fd:/app# pip freeze
iniconfig==2.0.0
kafka-python3==3.0.0
packaging==23.2
pluggy==1.4.0
py==1.11.0
pycodestyle==2.11.1
pydocstyle==6.3.0
pyparsing==3.1.1
pytest==8.1.1
pytest-pycodestyle==2.3.1
pytest-pydocstyle==2.3.2
snowballstemmer==2.2.0

Directory structure

6f7e8beeb7fd:/app# tree
app/
  ...
tests/
├── __pycache__
│   └── consumer_test.cpython-311-pytest-8.1.1.pyc
└── consumer_test.py
...
.pycodestyle.ini
.pytest.ini
setup.cfg

Configuration files

# Filename: .pycodestyle.ini
# See: https://pycodestyle.pycqa.org/en/latest/intro.html#configuration.
[pycodestyle]

max-line-length = 160

# Filename: setup.cfg
# See: https://pycodestyle.pycqa.org/en/latest/intro.html#configuration.
# See: https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/reference/customize.html#setup-cfg.
[pycodestyle]

max-line-length = 160

Results

Using .pycodestyle.ini configuration file

6f7e8beeb7fd:/app# pycodestyle tests/ -vv
directory tests
checking tests/consumer_test.py
from unittest import TestCase
class TestConsumer(TestCase):
"""xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"""
def setUp(self) -> None:
pass
def tearDown(self) -> None:
pass
def test_a_non_existent_function(self) -> None:
"""xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"""

self.assertEqual({'xxx': 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
tests/consumer_test.py:14:80: E501 line too long (84 > 79 characters)
tests/consumer_test.py:15:80: E501 line too long (101 > 79 characters)
tests/consumer_test.py:18:80: E501 line too long (118 > 79 characters)
tests/consumer_test.py:21:80: E501 line too long (118 > 79 characters)

As you can observe, no configuration file where loaded 🌧️

Using setup.cfg configuration file

6f7e8beeb7fd:/app# pycodestyle tests/ -vv
local configuration: in /app
  max-line-length = 160
directory tests
checking tests/consumer_test.py
from unittest import TestCase
class TestConsumer(TestCase):
"""xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"""
def setUp(self) -> None:
pass
def tearDown(self) -> None:
pass
def test_a_non_existent_function(self) -> None:
"""xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"""

self.assertEqual({'xxx': 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

On the other hand, the configuration is loaded.

Unit test class

from unittest import TestCase


class TestConsumer(TestCase):
    """Cover `TestConsumer` class.`"""

    def setUp(self) -> None:
        pass

    def tearDown(self) -> None:
        pass

    def test_a_non_existent_function(self) -> None:
        """Unit test to cover a non existent scenario inside the current project."""
        # The next extensive lines exist in order to trigger a rule exposed on the `pydocstyle` tool.
        self.assertEqual(
            {
                'key': 'This gonna be a code extensive line to test the `pydocstyle` configuration file: 3.1415926535'
            },
            {
                'key': 'This gonna be a code extensive line to test the `pydocstyle` configuration file: 3.1415926535'
            }
        )

Thank you for reading it 👋