\ (line continuation) not respected for pragmas

[pylint-bot]

Originally reported by: the mulhern (BitBucket: the_mulhern)

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In the following code, the disable pragma is respected and no error is reported.

#!python


class Foo(object):
    """block-disable test"""

    def meth3(self):
        """test one line disabling"""
        print \
           self.bla # pylint: disable=E1101

But in this code the disable pragma is not respected and the error is reported.

#!python

class Foo(object):
    """block-disable test"""

    def meth3(self):
        """test one line disabling"""
        print self.bla \
           # pylint: disable=E1101

In the first case, the code is broken by the "" but in the second the code is separated from the pragma by the slash. I believe that the pragma should be considered to be on the same line as the code in both cases, so neither should have an error.

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/logilab/pylint/issue/199

[pylint-bot]

Original comment by Sylvain Thénault (BitBucket: sthenault, GitHub: @sthenault?):

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Removing version: 1.1 (automated comment)

[adamc55]

It would be nice to have this fixed. An alternative might be a pylint comment that applies only to the next line (so that you could put it right before the line in question).

[The-Compiler]

An alternative might be a pylint comment that applies only to the next line (so that you could put it right before the line in question).

I'd love that! I often want a # pylint: disable=some-code-here comment but keep it under the 79 char limit, so I usually end up ignoring it for the whole function (at least I think that's what currently happens when you put such a comment on a line on its own).