diff --git a/.pylintrc b/.pylintrc
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+[MASTER]
+disable=missing-docstring,too-few-public-methods,invalid-name,duplicate-code,superfluous-parens,too-many-locals
+max-line-length=120
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
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+dist: xenial   # required for Python >= 3.7
+language: python
+python:
+  - "3.7"
+install:
+  - pip install pylint
+# command to run tests
+script: pylint osbuild assemblers/* stages/*