Description
As the config file read order defined by the order of the lists at https://github.com/python/mypy/blob/master/mypy/defaults.py#L15
is
CONFIG_FILES = CONFIG_FILE + SHARED_CONFIG_FILES + USER_CONFIG_FILES # type: Final
a shared config file (which may exist for several other purposes) shadows any user config files even in the case when
the shared config file contains no mypy
section.
Steps to reproduce:
- Create an empty
setup.cfg
in the current directory, and also have one of theUSER_CONFIG_FILE
versions of a mypy config file. - Run mypy
- Notice that only the
setup.cfg
file was read, even though it had nomypy
section.
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Proposal
The logic which checks for a mypy
section in the parser
object (https://github.com/python/mypy/blob/master/mypy/config_parser.py#L127) should be used to check whether the parser.read
call actually loaded anything meaningful from the config file. If no mypy
section was loaded, then the loop over the config_files
should continue instead of breaking.
This should at least be the case for any shared config files which may exist for entirely other reasons.