diff --git a/pylintrc b/pylintrc
index d261b9a88..4e7779ce0 100644
--- a/pylintrc
+++ b/pylintrc
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ disable=
     assignment-from-no-return,  # new in pylint 2.0
     keyword-arg-before-vararg,  # pylint 2.0, remove after dropping Python 2
     consider-using-enumerate,  # pylint 2.1, clean up tests later
+    no-else-raise, # python 2.4.0
 
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