When I am running via shell a pylint:

$ pylint decorator.py 
No config file found, using default configuration
************* Module decorator
C:  7, 0: Unnecessary parens after 'print' keyword (superfluous-parens)
C: 15, 0: Unnecessary parens after 'print' keyword (superfluous-parens)
C:  1, 0: Missing module docstring (missing-docstring)
C:  4, 0: Missing function docstring (missing-docstring)
C:  6, 4: Missing function docstring (missing-docstring)
C: 14, 0: Missing function docstring (missing-docstring)

However, as it can be seen below, these warning do not come up in VSCode

... despite the fact that some basic checking is indeed performed as it shown in the next picture where I have removed a blank line:

Assuming you have configured Python's Extension correctly and you have Pylint installed,

VSCode's Python Extension will do minimal checking by default if you do not provide a Pylint configuration option.

Simply enter "python.linting.pylintUseMinimalCheckers": false, into your .vscode/settings.json to force this off.

This is how mine looks:

{
    "autoDocstring.docstringFormat": "numpy",
    "editor.minimap.enabled": false,
    "editor.selectionClipboard": false,
    "python.pythonPath": "/home/jim/anaconda3/envs/dipoleDisplay",
    "window.zoomLevel": 0,
    "terminal.integrated.rendererType": "dom",
    "python.linting.pylintUseMinimalCheckers": false,
}