code quality

.pylintrc

@@ -20,7 +20,9 @@ fail-on=
 fail-under=10.0
 
 # Files or directories to be skipped. They should be base names, not paths.
-ignore=CVS,_version.py
+ignore=CVS,
+       _version.py,
+       CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
 
 # Add files or directories matching the regex patterns to the ignore-list. The
 # regex matches against paths and can be in Posix or Windows format.

src/geovista/qt.py

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 
 """
 try:
+    # pylint: disable-next=import-outside-toplevel
     import pyvistaqt as pvqt
 except ImportError as e:
     e.msg = f'{e.msg} - please install the "pyvistaqt" and "pyqt" packages.'

tests/test_qt.py

@@ -6,10 +6,13 @@
 
 
 def test_import():
-    # the test environment may or may not contain the "pyvistaqt" package.
-    # this test only checks that the expected exception is raised when it
-    # detects that the package is not already available in the test
-    # environment
+    """
+    The test environment may or may not contain the "pyvistaqt" package.
+    This test only checks that the expected exception is raised when it
+    detects that the package is not already available in the test
+    environment.
+
+    """
     try:
         import pyvistaqt
     except ImportError: