Pylint and RTD update patch, and other fixes

Author: evaherrada

.github/workflows/build.yml

@@ -42,9 +42,9 @@ jobs:
       # (e.g. - apt-get: gettext, etc; pip: circuitpython-build-tools, requirements.txt; etc.)
       run: |
         source actions-ci/install.sh
-    - name: Pip install pylint, Sphinx, pre-commit
+    - name: Pip install Sphinx, pre-commit
       run: |
-        pip install --force-reinstall pylint Sphinx sphinx-rtd-theme pre-commit
+        pip install --force-reinstall Sphinx sphinx-rtd-theme pre-commit
     - name: Library version
       run: git describe --dirty --always --tags
     #- name: Pre-commit hooks

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -4,11 +4,11 @@
 
 repos:
 -   repo: https://github.com/python/black
-    rev: latest
+    rev: 20.8b1
     hooks:
     - id: black
 -   repo: https://github.com/fsfe/reuse-tool
-    rev: latest
+    rev: v0.12.1
     hooks:
     - id: reuse
 -   repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
@@ -18,17 +18,25 @@ repos:
     -   id: end-of-file-fixer
     -   id: trailing-whitespace
 -   repo: https://github.com/pycqa/pylint
-    rev: pylint-2.7.1
+    rev: v2.11.1
     hooks:
     -   id: pylint
         name: pylint (library code)
         types: [python]
-        exclude: "^(docs/|examples/|setup.py$)"
--   repo: local
-    hooks:
-    -   id: pylint_examples
-        name: pylint (examples code)
+        args:
+          - --disable=consider-using-f-string
+        exclude: "^(docs/|examples/|tests/|setup.py$)"
+    -   id: pylint
+        name: pylint (example code)
         description: Run pylint rules on "examples/*.py" files
-        entry: /usr/bin/env bash -c
-        args: ['([[ ! -d "examples" ]] || for example in $(find . -path "./examples/*.py"); do pylint --disable=missing-docstring,invalid-name,consider-using-f-string $example; done)']
-        language: system
+        types: [python]
+        files: "^examples/"
+        args:
+        - --disable=missing-docstring,invalid-name,consider-using-f-string,duplicate-code
+    -   id: pylint
+        name: pylint (test code)
+        description: Run pylint rules on "tests/*.py" files
+        types: [python]
+        files: "^tests/"
+        args:
+        - --disable=missing-docstring,consider-using-f-string,duplicate-code

.pylintrc

@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ ignore-docstrings=yes
 ignore-imports=yes
 
 # Minimum lines number of a similarity.
-min-similarity-lines=12
+min-similarity-lines=4
 
 
 [BASIC]

docs/requirements.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Kattni Rembor for Adafruit Industries
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Unlicense
+
+sphinx>=4.0.0