Pylint output was filtered so that many files with existing pylint
violations were allowed to stay broken.
I made sure all files pass pylint, but whitelisted some rules that
we commonly disable:
* missing docstrings: most of the code is tests/internal anyway
* invalid-name: too many violations, and we commonly use one- or
two-character names (like "a, b" or "t1, t2") which is
disallowed by this rule; we could tweak it and then fix
remaining violations such as camel-case or lowercase constants
* fixme: we leave TODOs as a matter of practice, same as in C
* high-level style rules like too-few-* and too-many-*,
no-self-use
Hopefully that will make using pylint less annoying, while also
catching serious issues (such as unused variables or imports).
