diff --git a/Pylinter.sublime-settings b/Pylinter.sublime-settings
index 52c3c05..809b580 100755
--- a/Pylinter.sublime-settings
+++ b/Pylinter.sublime-settings
@@ -31,5 +31,7 @@
     "ignore": [],
     // a list of strings of individual errors to disable, ex: ["C0301"]
     "disable": [],
-    "plugins": []
+    "plugins": [],
+    // extra arguments to pass pylint, ex: ["--extension-pkg-whitelist=lxml"]
+    "pylint_extra": []
 }
diff --git a/pylinter.py b/pylinter.py
index 6f3f23e..ca8fe20 100755
--- a/pylinter.py
+++ b/pylinter.py
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ def read_settings(cls):
         plugins = cls.get_or('plugins', None)
 
         # Add custom runtime settings
-        pylint_extra = PylSet.get_or('pylint_extra', None)
+        pylint_extra = cls.get_or('pylint_extra', None)
 
         disable = cls.get_or('disable', [])
         # Added ignore for trailing whitespace (false positives bug in
@@ -478,6 +478,10 @@ def run(self):
         if self.disable_msgs:
             options.append('--disable=%s' % self.disable_msgs)
 
+        if self.extra_pylint_args:
+            for extra_arg in self.extra_pylint_args:
+                options.append(extra_arg)
+
         options.append(self.file_name)
         command.extend(options)