W0311: Bad indentation. Found 4 spaces, expected 2 (bad-indentation)

[polyglotm]

Question

what does that mean??
it should be oriented 4.

....def __init__(self):
........super().__init__()

this is real code. but lint return these things

W0311: Bad indentation. Found 4 spaces, expected 2 (bad-indentation)
W0311: Bad indentation. Found 8 spaces, expected 4 (bad-indentation)

for now, I just disable W0311. but I really do not understand. why is that?

[PCManticore]

Hi, thanks for the report. Do you use by any chance tabs instead of spaces?

[polyglotm]

@PCManticore no, I use only space

[elvijs]

Not sure if this helps, but I saw the same symptoms when I had accidentally misconfigured the pylintrc file (setting 2 spaces for indentation instead of 4).

[AWhetter]

Closing because it is close to year since this was reported but we still haven't been able to reproduce it. Please feel free to open a new issue if you come across this problem.

[richardmillson]

@polyglotm did you happen to download the pylintrc recommended by the Google Python Style Guide? It sets indent-string to two instead of four spaces with the comment

The internal Google style guide mandates 2 spaces. Google's externaly-published style guide says 4, consistent with PEP 8. Here, we use 2 spaces, for conformity with many open-sourced Google projects (like TensorFlow).

You can either set indent-string=' ' in your pylintrc to get the behaviour you want or invoke pylint with

pylint --indent-string='    ' your_file.py