How to deal with Pylint's “too-many-instance-attributes” message?

Question

I have just tried to lint some code with Pylint, and the last remaining error is

R0902: too-many-instance-attributes (8/7)

I understand the rat

Answer 1

This is an ideological objection, but personally I tend to try to make these kind of changes as universal as possible. If 7 is not enough instances in one file, and I choose to allow it here, why not everywhere? I don't always make changes to the lint rules across the board, but I at least consider it. To that end, if you want to make an across the board change, in your .pylintrc file change max-attributes=7 in the DESIGN section.

Since I think 7 is a little low across the board, I changed:

[DESIGN]
max-attributes=7

to

max-attributes=12