pylint #9340 W0231: False negative on multiple inheritance without overriding constructor [open]

Please consider the following program:

class A(object):
    def __init__(self):
        print 'A constructed'

class B(object):
    def __init__(self):
        print 'B constructed'

class C(A, B):
    pass

C()

When run, Python prints:

A constructed

This means the constructor of class B is not called, which is most likely not what the user wants. However, when pylint is run on this code, it does not issue W0231 (__init__ method from base class '<name>' is not called).

If C's constructor is overridden and there aren't calls to both superclass constructors, W0231 is issued (once or twice, depending on whether one or both calls are missing).