It's not just the config; Pylint assumes it's possible to statically parse code and make some simple assumptions about things like class / module members, which

It's not just the config; Pylint assumes it's possible to statically parse code and make some simple assumptions about things like class / module members, which only works for the most straightforward Python code. It issues constant warnings for many third-party packages - the one that broke the back of it for us was protobuf, in which it complains on every access to any one of the generated classes. In the end we moved to flake8 as well, which finds probably 90% of the issues that Pylint did but at < 1% of the false positive rate.