diff --git a/src/sbin/lorax-composer b/src/sbin/lorax-composer
index ff02af91..b007b1bd 100755
--- a/src/sbin/lorax-composer
+++ b/src/sbin/lorax-composer
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ from pylorax.api.recipes import open_or_create_repo, commit_recipe_directory
 from pylorax.api.server import server, GitLock
 from pylorax.api.yumbase import YumLock
 
+# pylint has trouble with gevent's socket module, doesn't recognize some of its members
+# pylint: disable=no-member
+
 VERSION = "{0}-{1}".format(os.path.basename(sys.argv[0]), vernum)
 
 DEFAULT_USER  = "root"
diff --git a/tests/pylorax/test_crossdomain.py b/tests/pylorax/test_crossdomain.py
index d3a585b1..6061e155 100644
--- a/tests/pylorax/test_crossdomain.py
+++ b/tests/pylorax/test_crossdomain.py
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ from datetime import timedelta
 
 from pylorax.api.crossdomain import crossdomain
 
+# pylint has trouble with Flask's server client response objects, thinks they are tuples
+# pylint: disable=no-member
 
 server = Flask(__name__)
 
diff --git a/tests/pylorax/test_server.py b/tests/pylorax/test_server.py
index 1179312e..b199afb8 100644
--- a/tests/pylorax/test_server.py
+++ b/tests/pylorax/test_server.py
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ from pylorax.api.server import server, GitLock
 from pylorax.api.yumbase import YumLock
 from pylorax.sysutils import joinpaths
 
+# pylint has trouble with Flask's server client response objects, thinks they are tuples
+# pylint: disable=no-member
+
 # Used for testing UTF-8 input support
 UTF8_TEST_STRING = "I ｗ𝒊ll 𝟉ο𝘁 𝛠ａ𝔰ꜱ 𝘁𝒉𝝸𝚜".decode("utf-8")