Linter-specific ignorePatterns (esp. mypy)

[bhrutledge]

Possible duplicate of #3396, and related to microsoft/vscode-black-formatter#359.

I've been adding type annotations to twine, but only for the source (i.e., not the tests). Our tox configuration only runs mypy on the source directory, but the VS Code mypy support runs commands like mypy tests/test_upload.py, which results in spurious errors.

In pypa/twine#619, I worked around this by making the tests directory a package, and telling mypy to ignore errors. This feels hacky, but according to python/mypy#4675, it seems like the only way to tell mypy to ignore a directory.

So, I'm wondering if options like python.linting.mypyIgnorePatterns could be added, or if python.linting.ignorePatterns could be on object with keys like mypy. In both cases, the values would be a list of patterns.

[karthiknadig]

Thank you for the suggestion! We have marked this issue as "needs decision" to make sure we have a conversation about your idea. We plan to leave this feature request open for at least a month to see how many 👍 votes the opening comment gets to help us make our decision.

[karthiknadig]

Related #1577

[luabud]

Closing in favour of #1577 as we'll respect mypy settings better once we address that issue.