pylint #19552 False positive in cascading import of module [open]

if object Toto is first defined in module_a but available in module_b (by import from module_a), importing it from module_b give a false positive

No name 'Toto' in module 'module_b'
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typebug
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  • 2010/01/13 07:56, written by sthenault

    original discussion

    > First off, I seem to be getting a couple of false positives related to
> the serial module (pyserial):
>
> E:  4: No name 'Serial' in module 'serial'
> E:  4: No name 'SerialException' in module 'serial'
>
> Line 4 is this:
> from serial import Serial, SerialException
>
> Serial and SerialException are both classes in the serial module, so I'm
> not really sure why those two errors are cropping up.

Serial are in fact a class of the serial.serialposix module. Serial is only
available in the serialmodule by import as the SerialException class from
serial.serialutil is.

    I'm using pylint 0.19.0 on Mac OS 10.5.8. Here's the output of pylint --version:

    pylint 0.19.0,
astng 0.19.3, common 0.46.0
Python 2.5.4 (r254:67917, Dec 23 2008, 14:57:27)
    • 2010/01/21 14:43, written by sthenault

      Pyserial is 2.4 (from pyserial-2.4-py2.5.egg) and matplotlib is 0.99.1.1 (from matplotlib-0.99.1.1_r7813-py2.5.egg).

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Ticket #19552 - latest update on 2010/01/21, created on 2010/01/04 by Pierre-Yves David