[Django]-Enabling pylint_django plugin in vscode, pylint stop working

This config for pylint is working for me:

"python.linting.pylintEnabled": true,
"python.linting.pylintArgs": [
    "--disable=C0111", // missing docstring
    "--load-plugins=pylint_django,pylint_celery",
 ],

I just got the same issue. Like @J0hnG4lt said, I had a problem with the python path. I didn’t point to the path of the environment, which I have installed pylint_django. This config is work for me. Thanks @Manu.

"python.pythonPath": "/Users/mc976/Documents/Programming/Python/Practice/music_service/venv/bin/python3",
"python.linting.pylintEnabled": true,
"python.linting.pylintArgs": [
    "--disable=C0111",
    "--load-plugins",
    "pylint_django"
]

Besides, I think you should check your environment to make sure that you have correctly installed pylint_django by using pip list.

My issue was more prosaic (but perhaps it will help other forehead slappers like myself). Run the PIP install in the correct virtualenv directory!

pip install pylint-django --upgrade

Also note that plugin errors cause Pylint to completely fail to load silently. Start with blank pylintArgs and slowly add them back one at a time to see where things go awry.

python.pythonPath is deprecated. You should use python.defaultInterpreterPath instead

found a working answer for myself here: https://donjayamanne.github.io/pythonVSCodeDocs/docs/linting/

my settings.json file now reads:

{
    "python.pythonPath": "C:\\ProgramData\\Anaconda3\\envs\\djangoSite2\\python.exe",
    "python.linting.pylintEnabled": true,
    "python.linting.pylintArgs": ["--disable=C0111","--load-plugins", "pylint_django"],
}

this then adds linting, but doesn’t throw an error on fields that it can’t find (like the Entity.objects.all() one), but has the disadvantage that if you then try and reference something that really doesn’t exist it doesn’t throw an error.

It now works on my Mac. This is my workspace’s settings.json:

{
"python.linting.pylintEnabled": true,
"python.linting.pycodestyleEnabled": false,
"files.autoSave": "afterDelay",
"editor.fontSize": 14,
"editor.wordWrapColumn": 90,
"editor.autoClosingQuotes": "beforeWhitespace",
"python.pythonPath": "/Users/myname/anaconda3/envs/myproject/bin/python",
"python.linting.pylintArgs": [
    "--disable=C0111", // missing docstring
    "--load-plugins=pylint_django",
 ],

}

I had to be careful to have installed pylint-django into the correct python environment. For me, this meant running this command in the terminal:

$ /Users/myname/anaconda3/envs/myproject/bin/python -m install pip pylint pylint-django

I ran into an error related to pylint not being able to parse JSON correctly. All I had to do was add an ‘s’ to my config to make it plugins (plural) instead of plugin. Then everything started working.

"python.linting.pylintArgs": [
            "--load-plugins=pylint_django",
        ],

create a new file .pylintrc and add this script

[MASTER]
disable=bad-plugin-value

My setup needed a details missing from other answers, namely the correct settings module:

// .vscode/settings.json
{
  "python.linting.pylintArgs": [
    "--load-plugins",
    "pylint_django",
    "--django-settings-module=myapp.settings"
  ]
}

The linter hints at the solution in places, instructing you to execute:

pylint --load-plugins=pylint_django --help-msg=django-not-configured

…which produces:

:django-not-configured (E5110): Django was not configured. For more information run pylint --load-plugins=pylint_django --help-msg=django-not-configured

Finding foreign-key relationships from strings in pylint-django requires
configuring Django. This can be done via the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE
environment variable or the pylint option django-settings-module, eg:
pylint --load-plugins=pylint_django --django-settings-module=myproject.settings .

This can also be set as an option in a .pylintrc configuration file. Some
basic default settings were used, however this will lead to less accurate
linting. Consider passing in an explicit Django configuration file to match
your project to improve accuracy. This message belongs to the django foreign
keys referenced by strings checker.

Docs: https://github.com/landscapeio/pylint-django#usage