For something as finely tuned as pylint, my sensible default and your would never be the same.

I don't want it to scream on a missing docstring for every single thing. I do want to be able to use a, b and x as variables. No, this root var is not a constant, don't ask me for uppercase. Etc.

on the contrary, i've seen code slow down by 50% due to a log.debug() that wasn't even emitted in prod. should've seen my face when i saw the pyspy flamechart.

pylint still sucks at partial function definitions. It wants to name anything that exists in the module scope that isn't an explicit function definition with CAPS_LOCK_MODE.

    $ pylint pylint_sucks_at_partials.py 
    ************* Module pylint_sucks_at_partials
    pylint_sucks_at_partials.py:7:0: C0103: Constant name 
    "add5" doesn't conform to UPPER_CASE naming style 
    (invalid-name)

The program in question:

    #!/usr/bin/env python
    """ proving pylint still sucks at partials """
    from functools import partial
    from operator import add
    
    
    add5 = partial(add, 5)
    
    
    if __name__ == '__main__':
        import sys
        print(add5(int(sys.argv[1])))