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:

fruit_counter = 0


# pylint: disable-next=redefined-outer-name
def eat(fruit_name: str):  # [useless-suppression]
    ...

Correct code:

fruit_counter = 0


def eat(fruit_name: str): ...

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