Pylint not running as expected in VScode

I had a similar problem where flake8 worked in VSCode but pylint didn't. Here are all the steps I had to check for pylint to start working:

1. Your .vscode\settings.json file enables linting by pylint (this can be hand edited or by running these command palette commands: Python: Enable Linting and Python: Select Linter)

   "python.linting.enabled": true

   "python.linting.pylintEnabled": true

2. from the command line (while in virtual environment) confirming that pylint and pylint-django are installed.

   pip show pylint

   pip show pylint-django

3. Add a .pylintrc file to your root directory that includes these lines.

   [MASTER]

   load-plugins=pylint_django

(NOTE: you can replace this pylintrc file with the following line in settings.json.)

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

For more info about using pylint in VSCode, see https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/linting#_pylint

For more info about the pylintrc file, see https://docs.pylint.org/en/1.6.0/run.html#command-line-options

Assuming you have configured Python's Extension correctly and you have Pylint installed,

VSCode's Python Extension will do minimal checking by default if you do not provide a Pylint configuration option.

Simply enter "python.linting.pylintUseMinimalCheckers": false, into your .vscode/settings.json to force this off.

This is how mine looks:

{
    "autoDocstring.docstringFormat": "numpy",
    "editor.minimap.enabled": false,
    "editor.selectionClipboard": false,
    "python.pythonPath": "/home/jim/anaconda3/envs/dipoleDisplay",
    "window.zoomLevel": 0,
    "terminal.integrated.rendererType": "dom",
    "python.linting.pylintUseMinimalCheckers": false,
}