Prompted to enable pylint every time I launch VSCode

Issue Type: Bug

Hello,

I have a python project with a .pylintrc file in the workspace. Everytime I launch VSCode - loading this project - I am prompted by one or more popups telling me “You have a pylintrc file in your workspace. Do you want to enable pylint?”

When I look in my settings, my user settings, workspace settings and project settings all have “Python > Linting: pylint Enabled” checked, so I really don’t know why I am seeing this popup every time.

Extension version: 2021.4.765268190 VS Code version: Code 1.55.2 (3c4e3df9e89829dce27b7b5c24508306b151f30d, 2021-04-13T09:35:57.887Z) OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19042

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[kimadeline]

Hi @stevetwist, thank you for your patience!

Your issue is similar to what was reported in https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python/issues/442, which is, as you can see, a long-standing issue.

I’m going to close this in favor of #442, feel free to upvote it to help us prioritize it.

Thank you!

[stevetwist]

Sorry for the delayed reply.

I can’t share the project itself, but I setup a test project to try and recreate the behavior.

I had a hard time at first recreating the same behavior (hence the delayed reply). I was eventually able to recreate the behavior, and I’m hoping the additional information I found will help you debug this.

First: I was only able to recreate this if the workspace folder is also a git repository. In a non-git workspace, this issue does not occur. However, simply performing ‘git init’ inside the workspace folder triggered the behaviour from that point on, when loading the workspace.

When I open the “broken” workspace in VSCode, and then open any file from that workspace in an editor, I see the linting popup. The first time I saw that popup and clicked “enable”, VSCode created a .vscode/settings.json in the workspace folder to enable linting (which you’ll see is included in the workspace I uploaded), yet this makes no difference, the popup still opens next time I open the workspace.

I did find a workaround that prevents the issue: hard-coding the settings in my workspace file to explicitly enable linting. This is not something the preferences will do (since those settings are enabled by default, I think), but by disabling them (so it wrote a setting) and then manually changing the setting from false to true, I was able to explicitly enable linting for my workspace. With that setting in place, I have not seen the popup since, and linting is working as expected. I have attached a “fixed” workspace, where I made those settings changes. I cannot get the popup to open for this workspace.

Thanks, Steve

brokenWorkspace.zip fixedWorkspace.zip