pylint #20066 strange warnings on imports in functions [open]

$ mkdir a
$ touch a/__init__.py a/b.py a/c.py a/d.py
$ cat x.py 
import a.b
import a.c
def test():
    import a.d
$ pylint x.py 
...
W:  4:test: Redefining name 'a' from outer scope (line 1)
...
W:  4:test: Unused variable 'a'
...

pylint-0.19.0-1.fc12.noarch
python-logilab-astng-0.19.3-1.fc12.noarch
prioritynormal
typebug
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  • 2010/12/15 16:54, written by eanclin | reply to this comment

    Note also the strange "Reimport" warning:

    ~/tmp $ pylint --report=n --disable=C x.py
No config file found, using default configuration
************* Module x
W:  2: Reimport 'a.c' (imported line 3)
W:  4:test: Redefining name 'a' from outer scope (line 1)
W:  4:test: Reimport 'a.d' (imported line 3)
W:  4:test: Unused variable 'a'
W:  1: Unused import a
  • 2011/02/11 17:29, written by anon | reply to this comment

    pylint 0.23.0 running on OS X. The code:

    """ Administrative utility functions """
from ips_quisitor.common.loggers import get_logger

__copyright__ = 'Copyright 2010 IP Street, Inc. All Rights Reserved.'

LOG = get_logger(__name__)


def ftp_connect(url, user, password):
    """Return an FTP connection object to a logged-in FTP server. """
    import ftplib

    ftp = ftplib.FTP(url)
    ftp.login(user, password)
    return ftp

    Pylint reports:

    lucius:dev-quisitor johnd$ pylint ips_quisitor/admin_dash/util.py
************* Module ips_quisitor.admin_dash.util
W: 11:ftpconnect: Reimport 'ftplib' (imported line 9)

    This appears to be clearly wrong.

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