Pylint nested pylintrc : Specify a configuration file

Question

Goal

I want to use pylint without specifying the file path (just run pylint instead of pylint --rcfile=linter/.pylintrc), as I want to save all linter related files in a subfolder linter/.

I thought of adding a .pylintrc file at the root folder only a redirection to the actual config file linter/.pylintrc.

Exploration

The option rcfile seems to be what I look for, it doesn't seems to import the settings from the sub-folder. What am I missing ?

Proposed .pylintrc file for redirection:

[MASTER]
# Specify a configuration file.
rcfile=subfolder/.pylintrc

Answer 1

This is not supported in pylint see this pull request