pylint #21687 False positive "Uses of a deprecated module 'string'" [rejected]

I have checked the python docs and can see no indication that the string module has be deprecated.

test.py:

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#!/usr/bin/env python

import string

print string.digits

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sam@pc47 ~/zgoubi/pyzgoubi-sf/trunk/$ pylint --version
pylint 0.19.0,
astng 0.19.3, common 0.46.0
Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Jan 13 2010, 17:39:28)
[GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)]