diff --git a/pylintrc b/pylintrc
index e93bb0ac0b0..3b113665a96 100644
--- a/pylintrc
+++ b/pylintrc
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # I also tried extension-pkg-allow-list, but it had no effect. https://stackoverflow.com/a/35259944/6823256
 generated-members=orjson
-ignore=sql
+ignore-paths=^.*.sql$,^.*hail/python/cluster-tests/.*$,^.*hail/python/dev/.*$,^.*hail/python/hail/.*$,^.*hail/python/hail.egg-info/.*$,^.*hail/python/test/.*$
 
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 # C0111 Missing docstring