In the sonar-project.properties file, the following line is defined:

sonar.python.pylint_config=.pylintrc

However, there is no .pylintrc in the root of repository, so sonar-runner fails with the exception:

Exception in thread "main" org.sonar.batch.bootstrapper.BootstrapException: org.sonar.api.util
s.SonarException: Cannot analyse the file 'C:\temp\sample_sonar_python\src\badfortune.py', det
ails: 'org.sonar.api.utils.SonarException: Cannot find the pylint configuration file: c:\temp
sample_sonar_python.pylintrc'
at org.sonar.runner.Runner.delegateExecution(Runner.java:189)
at org.sonar.runner.Runner.execute(Runner.java:78)
at org.sonar.runner.Main.main(Main.java:61)
Caused by: org.sonar.api.utils.SonarException: Cannot analyse the file 'C:\temp\sample_sonar_p
ython\src\badfortune.py', details: 'org.sonar.api.utils.SonarException: Cannot find the pylint
configuration file: c:\temp\sample_sonar_python.pylintrc'
at org.sonar.plugins.python.PythonSensor.analyse(PythonSensor.java:48)
at org.sonar.batch.phases.SensorsExecutor.execute(SensorsExecutor.java:64)
at org.sonar.batch.phases.Phases.execute(Phases.java:93)
at org.sonar.batch.bootstrap.ProjectModule.doStart(ProjectModule.java:143)
at org.sonar.batch.bootstrap.Module.start(Module.java:83)
at org.sonar.batch.bootstrap.BatchModule.analyze(BatchModule.java:111)
..........