🧪 Bump pylint to v3.1.0

This version supports Python 3.12 officially. As a part of this patch,
`pylint-pytest` is also updated with the bugfixes needed to stop
capping it.

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ repos:
       $
 
 - repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint.git
-  rev: v2.15.9
+  rev: v3.1.0
   hooks:
   - id: pylint
     additional_dependencies:
@@ -267,11 +267,15 @@ repos:
     - jaraco.text
     - more_itertools
     - portend
-    - pylint-pytest < 1.1.0
+    - pylint-pytest
+    - pyOpenSSL  # needed by pylint-pytest since it picks up pytest's args
     - pypytools
+    - pytest-cov  # needed by pylint-pytest since it picks up pytest's args
+    - pytest-xdist  # needed by pylint-pytest since it picks up pytest's args
     - requests_toolbelt
     - requests_unixsocket
     - Sphinx
+    - trustme  # needed by pylint-pytest since it picks up pytest's args
 
 - repo: local
   hooks:

.pylintrc

@@ -32,7 +32,10 @@ ignore-patterns=
 
 # Python code to execute, usually for sys.path manipulation such as
 # pygtk.require().
-#init-hook=
+# This patch injects the project directory into the import path so that the
+# local `pytest` plugin can be imported when `pylint-pytest` invokes it when
+# exploring the fixtures available:
+init-hook="import os, sys; sys.path[:0] = [os.getcwd()]; os.environ['PYTHONPATH'] = sys.path[0]"
 
 # Use multiple processes to speed up Pylint. Specifying 0 will auto-detect the
 # number of processors available to use.
@@ -635,7 +638,7 @@ preferred-modules=
 [EXCEPTIONS]
 
 # Exceptions that will emit a warning when being caught. Defaults to
-# "BaseException, Exception".
+# "builtins.BaseException, builtins.Exception".
 overgeneral-exceptions=
-  BaseException,
-  Exception,
+  builtins.BaseException,
+  builtins.Exception,