.. _useless-suppression:

useless-suppression / I0021
===========================

**Message emitted:**

``Useless suppression of %s``

**Description:**

*Reported when a message is explicitly disabled for a line or a block of code, but never triggered.*

.. caution::
  This message is disabled by default. To enable it, add ``useless-suppression`` to the ``enable`` option.


.. caution::
  By default, this message will not fail the execution (pylint will return 0).
  To make pylint fail for this message use the ``--fail-on=I0021`` option
  or ``--fail-on=I`` to fail on all enabled informational messages.


**Problematic code:**

.. literalinclude:: /data/messages/u/useless-suppression/bad.py
   :language: python

**Correct code:**

.. literalinclude:: /data/messages/u/useless-suppression/good.py
   :language: python





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