1. Remove the usage of the path.join function
now that all code should be going through
the util file methods (and they can be
mocked out as needed).
2. Adjust all occurences of the above join
function to either not use it or replace
it with the standard os.path.join (which
can also be mocked out as needed)
3. Fix pylint from complaining about the
tests folder 'helpers.py' not being found
4. Add a pylintrc file that is used instead
of the options hidden in the 'run_pylint'
tool.
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