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### Bug description The [documentation](https://pylint.pycqa.org/en/latest/user_guide/checkers/extensions.html#parameter-documentation-checker-documentation) states that "Constructor parameters can be documented in either the class docstring or the __init__ docstring, but not both. However, I see that the docstring...

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### Current problem For ```python result = '' for number in ['1', '2', '3']: result += number # [consider-using-join] ``` Where the final result would be ``"".join(['1', '2', '3'])`` we...

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### Current problem We sometimes see code like this: ```python def foo(*, left=None, right=None): """ ... """ if (left is None) != (right is None): raise ValueError('Either both left= and...

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### Bug description test_epylint.py mysteriously fails in my environment, regardless of python version, and possibly regardless of pylint version. **Note**: The name of my home directory is `c:\Users\Edward Ream.` Blanks...

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### Bug description Two issues with ``bad-string-format-type``: 1. Just like ``bad-format-character`` the ``bad-string-format-type`` message is currently only raised for old-style string formatting. 2. If only a single value needs to...

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A longstanding issue of `pylint` has been that there is little documentation about some of the messages and why they are emitted. For some messages the short message that is...

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### Bug description Also mentioned in discussion in https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/5113. The following situation does not issue a message from Pylint: a.py: ```python for a, b, c, d, e, f, g in...

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### Current problem Hi, is it in the roadmap to make pylint provide [SARIF](https://sarifweb.azurewebsites.net/) output ? (SARIF is the OASIS common format for all analysis tools ) It would help...

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### Current problem The PEP-8 guidelines state that module level dunders are supposed to be [above](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#module-level-dunder-names) imports. This is something pylint does not warn about if the code does not...

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Any chance we can have an option to remove these module lines from "text" reporter? They are annoying when parsing the messages and require an extra step of filtering. This...

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topic-configuration
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