Pylint does not work in visual studio code

I have the same issue in Windows, and I get pylintrc file by:

pylint --generate-rcfile > ~/.pylintrc

While I use notepad++ to open it, the encoding is not utf8, and I change it to utf8, then it works.

By now I've solved the problem by just using a copy of my pylintrc file from mac. The problem - as far as I understand it - comes from the Windows Powershell. When I do

pylint --generate-rcfile > pylintrc

it creates a file with cp-1251 encoding.

The solution is to copy the data and paste it into an IDE/text editor to save it as utf-8 file. Or simply (like I did) copy it from another system or from the web.

What I observe, with my pylint 2.4.4 and VS Code 1.43.0 at least, is that pylint is irrespective to its' ~/.pylintrc file encoding. I tried it with quite a few encodings (far not only UTF8-BOM, UTF8-noBOM, but few others) - none of them caused it to fail.

The problem, discussed here, in my case was caused that I did not escaped slashes in ~/.pylintrc file [MASTER] section, when defining an init_hook it it.

I had:

[MASTER]

# other statements
...


init-hook="import sys; sys.path.append('C:\Users\<username>\Documents\<project>')"

and that caused the problem exactly like discussed here.

Once I added a r modifier before the path, like this:

[MASTER]

# other statements
...

init-hook="import sys; sys.path.append(r'C:\Users\<username>\Documents\<project>')"

it fixed the problem right away.