Pylint plugin to enforce consistent file/module header.

You can install the package with pip from pypi:

pip install pylintfileheader

Generate a .pylintrc file by executing pylint --generate-rcfile. Then add pylintfileheader to the plugins to load and set the file-header option to the regular expression that the file header should match.
When the file-header setting is omitted, pylint will pass.

• file-header is a regexp representing the file header that should be on top of a file.
• file-header-path is the path to the file that contains the header. This is useful in case of long, multi-line headers, such as copyrights.
• file-header-ignore-empty-files turns on the mode of ignoring the empty files, like __init__.py. The default value is False.

If both options file-header and file-header-path are set, then file-header will be used and the file-header-path is ignored.

• .pylintrc:

  [MASTER]
  load-plugins=pylintfileheader
  
  file-header=# -----------\n#[ \w]*\n# -----------
  

• valid_example.py:

  # -----------
  # lorem ipsum
  # -----------
  
  print('I am a valid example')

• invalid_example.py:

  # lorem ipsum
  
  print('I am an invalid example')

• pylint valid_example.py evaluates to:

  Using config file /path/to/your/.pylintrc
  
  ------------------------------------
  Your code has been rated at 10.00/10
  

• pylint invalid_example.py evaluates to:

  Using config file /path/to/your/.pylintrc
  ************* Module invalid_example
  C:  1, 0: File header should match regex "# -----------\n#[ \w]*\n# -----------" (invalid-file-header)
  
  -----------------------------------
  Your code has been rated at 8.57/10
  

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