make linters happy again

.pylintrc

@@ -84,7 +84,16 @@ confidence=
 #       a feature request to improve pylint in this respect:
 #           https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/246
 
-disable=import-star-module-level,old-octal-literal,oct-method,print-statement,unpacking-in-except,parameter-unpacking,backtick,old-raise-syntax,old-ne-operator,long-suffix,dict-view-method,dict-iter-method,metaclass-assignment,next-method-called,raising-string,indexing-exception,raw_input-builtin,long-builtin,file-builtin,execfile-builtin,coerce-builtin,cmp-builtin,buffer-builtin,basestring-builtin,apply-builtin,filter-builtin-not-iterating,using-cmp-argument,useless-suppression,range-builtin-not-iterating,suppressed-message,no-absolute-import,old-division,cmp-method,reload-builtin,zip-builtin-not-iterating,intern-builtin,unichr-builtin,reduce-builtin,standarderror-builtin,unicode-builtin,xrange-builtin,coerce-method,delslice-method,getslice-method,setslice-method,input-builtin,round-builtin,hex-method,nonzero-method,map-builtin-not-iterating,missing-docstring,old-style-class,bad-whitespace,consider-using-with,consider-using-f-string,duplicate-code
+# The following disables habe been activated to make most combinations
+# of pylint/python versions working again.
+#
+# * E0012 - bad-option-value
+# * R0022 - useless-option-value
+# * W0012 - unknown-option-value
+# * E0015 - unrecognized-option
+
+
+disable=import-star-module-level,old-octal-literal,oct-method,print-statement,unpacking-in-except,parameter-unpacking,backtick,old-raise-syntax,old-ne-operator,long-suffix,dict-view-method,dict-iter-method,metaclass-assignment,next-method-called,raising-string,indexing-exception,raw_input-builtin,long-builtin,file-builtin,execfile-builtin,coerce-builtin,cmp-builtin,buffer-builtin,basestring-builtin,apply-builtin,filter-builtin-not-iterating,using-cmp-argument,useless-suppression,range-builtin-not-iterating,suppressed-message,no-absolute-import,old-division,cmp-method,reload-builtin,zip-builtin-not-iterating,intern-builtin,unichr-builtin,reduce-builtin,standarderror-builtin,unicode-builtin,xrange-builtin,coerce-method,delslice-method,getslice-method,setslice-method,input-builtin,round-builtin,hex-method,nonzero-method,map-builtin-not-iterating,missing-docstring,old-style-class,bad-whitespace,consider-using-with,consider-using-f-string,duplicate-code,R0022,W0012,E0012,E0015
 
 
 [REPORTS]

.pylinttestsrc

@@ -84,7 +84,15 @@ confidence=
 #       a feature request to improve pylint in this respect:
 #           https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/246
 
-disable=import-star-module-level,old-octal-literal,oct-method,print-statement,unpacking-in-except,parameter-unpacking,backtick,old-raise-syntax,old-ne-operator,long-suffix,dict-view-method,dict-iter-method,metaclass-assignment,next-method-called,raising-string,indexing-exception,raw_input-builtin,long-builtin,file-builtin,execfile-builtin,coerce-builtin,cmp-builtin,buffer-builtin,basestring-builtin,apply-builtin,filter-builtin-not-iterating,using-cmp-argument,useless-suppression,range-builtin-not-iterating,suppressed-message,no-absolute-import,old-division,cmp-method,reload-builtin,zip-builtin-not-iterating,intern-builtin,unichr-builtin,reduce-builtin,standarderror-builtin,unicode-builtin,xrange-builtin,coerce-method,delslice-method,getslice-method,setslice-method,input-builtin,round-builtin,hex-method,nonzero-method,map-builtin-not-iterating,missing-docstring,old-style-class,bad-whitespace,duplicate-code,too-many-public-methods,protected-access,too-many-locals,consider-using-with,consider-using-f-string,super-with-arguments
+# The following disables habe been activated to make most combinations
+# of pylint/python versions working again.
+#
+# * E0012 - bad-option-value
+# * R0022 - useless-option-value
+# * W0012 - unknown-option-value
+# * E0015 - unrecognized-option
+
+disable=import-star-module-level,old-octal-literal,oct-method,print-statement,unpacking-in-except,parameter-unpacking,backtick,old-raise-syntax,old-ne-operator,long-suffix,dict-view-method,dict-iter-method,metaclass-assignment,next-method-called,raising-string,indexing-exception,raw_input-builtin,long-builtin,file-builtin,execfile-builtin,coerce-builtin,cmp-builtin,buffer-builtin,basestring-builtin,apply-builtin,filter-builtin-not-iterating,using-cmp-argument,useless-suppression,range-builtin-not-iterating,suppressed-message,no-absolute-import,old-division,cmp-method,reload-builtin,zip-builtin-not-iterating,intern-builtin,unichr-builtin,reduce-builtin,standarderror-builtin,unicode-builtin,xrange-builtin,coerce-method,delslice-method,getslice-method,setslice-method,input-builtin,round-builtin,hex-method,nonzero-method,map-builtin-not-iterating,missing-docstring,old-style-class,bad-whitespace,duplicate-code,too-many-public-methods,protected-access,too-many-locals,consider-using-with,consider-using-f-string,super-with-arguments,E0012,R0022,W0012,E0015
 
 
 [REPORTS]

TarSCM/helpers.py

@@ -65,8 +65,9 @@ def run_cmd(self, cmd, cwd, interactive=False, raisesysexit=False):
         return (proc.returncode, output)
 
     def safe_run(self, cmd, cwd, interactive=False):
-        """Execute the command cmd in the working directory cwd and check return
-        value. If the command returns non-zero raise a SystemExit exception.
+        """Execute the command cmd in the working directory cwd and check
+        return value. If the command returns non-zero raise a SystemExit
+        exception.
         """
         result = self.run_cmd(cmd, cwd, interactive, raisesysexit=True)
         return result

tests/test.py

@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ def prepare_testsuite(tclasses):
             to_run = {}
             for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
                 rmatch = re.match('^/(.+)/$', arg)
+                # pylint: disable=unnecessary-lambda-assignment
                 if rmatch:
                     # regexp mode
                     regexp = rmatch.group(1)