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------------------
Pylint's ChangeLog
------------------
What's New in Pylint 2.0?
=========================
* Fix emission of false positive ``no-member`` message for class with "private" attributes whose name is mangled.
Close #1643
* Fixed a crash which occurred when `Uninferable` wasn't properly handled in `stop-iteration-return`
Close #1779
* Use the proper node to get the name for redefined functions (#1792)
Close #1774
* Don't crash when encountering bare raises while checking inconsistent returns
Close #1773
* Fix a false positive ``inconsistent-return-statements`` message when if statement is inside try/except.
Close #1770
* Fix a false positive ``inconsistent-return-statements`` message when while loop are used.
Close #1772
* Correct column number for whitespace conventions.
Previously the column was stuck at 0
Close #1649
* Fix ``unused-argument`` false positives with overshadowed variable in
dictionary comprehension.
Close #1731
* Fix false positive ``inconsistent-return-statements`` message when never
returning functions are used (i.e sys.exit for example).
Close #1771
What's New in Pylint 1.8.1?
=========================
Release date: 2017-12-15
* Wrong version number in __pkginfo__.
What's New in Pylint 1.8?
=========================
Release date: 2017-12-15
* Respect disable=... in config file when running with --py3k.
* New warning `shallow-copy-environ` added
Shallow copy of os.environ doesn't work as people may expect. os.environ
is not a dict object but rather a proxy object, so any changes made
on copy may have unexpected effects on os.environ
Instead of copy.copy(os.environ) method os.environ.copy() should be
used.
See https://bugs.python.org/issue15373 for details.
Close #1301
* Do not display no-absolute-import warning multiple times per file.
* `trailing-comma-tuple` refactor check now extends to assignment with
more than one element (such as lists)
Close #1713
* Fixing u'' string in superfluous-parens message
Close #1420
* `abstract-class-instantiated` is now emitted for all inference paths.
Close #1673
* Add set of predefined naming style to ease configuration of checking
naming conventions.
Closes #1013
* Added a new check, ``keyword-arg-before-vararg``
This is emitted for function definitions
in which keyword arguments are placed before variable
positional arguments (*args).
This may lead to args list getting modified if keyword argument's value
is not provided in the function call assuming it will take default value
provided in the definition.
* The `invalid-name` check contains the name of the template that caused the failure
Close #1176
* Using the -j flag won't start more child linters than needed.
Contributed by Roman Ivanov in #1614
* Fix a false positive with bad-python3-import on relative imports
Close #1608
* Added a new Python 3 check, ``non-ascii-bytes-literals``
Close #1545
* Added a couple of new Python 3 checks for accessing dict methods in non-iterable context
* Protocol checks (not-a-mapping, not-an-iterable and co.) aren't emitted on classes with dynamic getattr
* Added a new warning, 'bad-thread-instantiation'
This message is emitted when the threading.Thread class does not
receive the target argument, but receives just one argument, which
is by default the group parameter.
Close #1327
* In non-quiet mode, absolute path of used config file is logged to
standard error.
Close #1519
* Raise meaningful exception for invalid reporter class being selected
When unknown reporter class will be selected as Pylint reporter,
meaningful error message would be raised instead of bare ``ImportError``
or ``AttribueError`` related to module or reporter class being not found.
Close #1388
* Added a new Python 3 check for accessing removed functions from itertools
like ``izip`` or ``ifilterfalse``
* Added a new Python 3 check for accessing removed fields from the types
module like ``UnicodeType`` or ``XRangeType``
* Added a new Python 3 check for declaring a method ``next`` that would have
been treated as an iterator in Python 2 but a normal function in Python 3.
* Added a new key-value pair in json output. The key is ``message-id``
and the value is the message id.
Close #1512
* Added a new Python 3.0 check for raising a StopIteration inside a generator.
The check about raising a StopIteration inside a generator is also valid if the exception
raised inherit from StopIteration.
Close #1385
* Added a new warning, ``raising-format-tuple``, to detect multi-argument
exception construction instead of message string formatting.
* Added a new check for method of logging module that concatenate string via + operator
Close #1479
* Added parameter for limiting number of suggestions in spellchecking checkers
* Fix a corner-case in ``consider-using-ternary`` checker.
When object ``A`` used in ``X and A or B`` was falsy in boolean context,
Pylint incorrectly emitted non-equivalent ternary-based suggestion.
After a change message is correctly not emitted for this case.
Close #1559
* Added ``suggestion-mode`` configuration flag. When flag is enabled, informational
message is emitted instead of cryptic error message for attributes accessed on
c-extensions.
Close #1466
* Fix a false positive ``useless-super-delegation`` message when
parameters default values are different from those used in the base class.
Close #1085
* Disabling 'wrong-import-order', 'wrong-import-position', or
'ungrouped-imports' for a single line now prevents that line from
triggering violations on subsequent lines.
Close #1336
* Added a new Python check for inconsistent return statements inside method or function.
Close #1267
* Fix ``superfluous-parens`` false positive related to handling logical statements
involving ``in`` operator.
Close #574
* ``function-redefined`` message is no longer emitted for functions and
methods which names matches dummy variable name regular expression.
Close #1369
* Fix ``missing-param-doc`` and ``missing-type-doc`` false positives when
mixing ``Args`` and ``Keyword Args`` in Google docstring.
Close #1409
* Fix ``missing-docstring`` false negatives when modules, classes, or methods
consist of compound statements that exceed the ``docstring-min-length``
* Fix ``useless-else-on-loop`` false positives when break statements are
deeply nested inside loop.
Close #1661
* Fix no ``wrong-import-order`` message emitted on ordering of first and third party
libraries. With this fix, pylint distinguishes third and first party
modules when checking import order.
Close #1702
* Fix ``pylint disable=fixme`` directives ignored for comments following the
last statement in a file.
Close #1681
* Fix ``line-too-long`` message deactivated by wrong disable directive.
The directive ``disable=fixme`` doesn't deactivate anymore the emission
of ``line-too-long`` message for long commented lines.
Close #1741
* If the rcfile specified on the command line doesn't exist, then an
IOError exception is raised.
Close #1747
What's New in Pylint 1.7.1?
=========================
Release date: 2017-04-17
* Fix a false positive which occurred when an exception was reraised
Close #1419
* Fix a false positive of ``disallow-trailing-tuple``
The check was improved by verifying for non-terminating newlines, which
should exempt function calls and function definitions from the check
Close #1424
What's New in Pylint 1.7?
=========================
Release date: 2017-04-13
* Don't emit missing-final-newline or trailing-whitespace for formfeeds (page breaks).
Close #1218 and #1219
* Don't emit by default no-member if we have opaque inference objects in the inference results
This is controlled through the new flag ignore-on-opaque-inference, which is by
default True. The inference can return multiple potential results while
evaluating a Python object, but some branches might not be evaluated, which
results in partial inference. In that case, it might be useful to still emit
no-member and other checks for the rest of the inferred objects.
* Added new message `assign-to-new-keyword` to warn about assigning to names which
will become a keyword in future Python releases.
Close #1351
* Split the 'missing or differing' in parameter documentation in different error.
'differing-param-doc' covers the differing part of the old 'missing-param-doc',
and 'differing-type-doc' covers the differing part of the old 'missing-type-doc'
Close #1342
* Added a new error, 'used-prior-global-declaration', which is emitted when a name
is used prior a global declaration in a function. This causes a SyntaxError in
Python 3.6
Close #1257
* The protocol checks are emitting their messages when a special method is set to None.
Close #1263
* Properly detect if imported name is assigned to same name in different
scope.
Close #636, #848, #851, and #900
* Require one space for annotations with type hints, as per PEP 8.
* 'trailing-comma-tuple' check was added
This message is emitted when pylint finds an one-element tuple,
created by a stray comma. This can suggest a potential problem in the
code and it is recommended to use parantheses in order to emphasise the
creation of a tuple, rather than relying on the comma itself.
* Don't emit not-callable for instances with unknown bases.
Close #1213
* Treat keyword only arguments the same as positional arguments with regard to unused-argument check
* Don't try to access variables defined in a separate scope when checking for ``protected-access``
* Added new check to detect incorrect usage of len(SEQUENCE) inside
test conditions.
* Added new extension to detect comparisons against empty string constants
* Added new extension to detect comparisons of integers against zero
* Added new error conditions for 'bad-super-call'
Now detects ``super(type(self), self)`` and ``super(self.__class__, self)``
which can lead to recursion loop in derived classes.
* PyLinter.should_analyze_file has a new optional parameter, called `is_argument`
Close #1079
* Add attribute hints for missing members
Closes #1035
* Add a new warning, 'redefined-argument-from-local'
Closes #649
* Support inline comments for comma separated values in the config file
Closes #1024
* epylint.py_run's *script* parameter was removed.
* epylint.py_run now uses ``shell=False`` for running the underlying process.
Closes #441
* Added a new warning, 'useless-super-delegation'
Close 839.
* Added a new error, 'invalid-metaclass', raised when
we can detect that a class is using an improper metaclass.
Close #579
* Added a new refactoring message, 'literal-comparison'.
Close #786
* arguments-differ takes in consideration kwonlyargs and variadics
Close #983
* Removed --optimized-ast. Part of #975.
* Removed --files-output option. Part of #975.
* Removed pylint-gui from the package.
* Removed the HTML reporter. Part of #975.
* ignored-argument-names is now used for ignoring arguments for unused-variable check.
This option was used for ignoring arguments when computing the correct number of arguments
a function should have, but for handling the arguments with regard
to unused-variable check, dummy-variables-rgx was used instead. Now, ignored-argument-names
is used for its original purpose and also for ignoring the matched arguments for
the unused-variable check. This offers a better control of what should be ignored
and how.
Also, the same option was moved from the design checker to the variables checker,
which means that the option now appears under the ``[VARIABLES]`` section inside
the configuration file.
Close #862.
* Fix a false positive for keyword variadics with regard to keyword only arguments.
If a keyword only argument was necessary for a function, but that function was called
with keyword variadics (**kwargs), then we were emitting a missing-kwoa false positive,
which is now fixed.
Close #934.
* Fix some false positives with unknown sized variadics.
Close #878
* Added a new extension, check_docstring, for checking PEP 257 conventions.
Closes #868.
* config files with BOM markers can now be read.
Close #864.
* epylint.py_run does not crash on big files, using .communicate() instead of .wait()
Close #599
* Disable reports by default and show the evaluation score by default
As per discussion from issue #746, the reports were disabled by
default in order to simplify the interaction between the tool
and the users. The score is still shown by default, as a way of
closely measuring when it increases or decreases due to changes
brought to the code.
* Disable the information category messages by default.
This is a step towards making pylint more sane, as
per the discussion from issue #746.
* Catch more cases as not proper iterables for __slots__ with
regard to invalid-slots pattern. Closes issue #775.
* empty indent strings are rejected.
* Added a new error, 'relative-beyond-top-level', which is emitted
when a relative import was attempted beyond the top level package.
Closes issue #588.
* Added a new warning, 'unsupported-assignment-operation', which is
emitted when item assignment is tried on an object which doesn't
have this ability. Closes issue #591.
* Added a new warning, 'unsupported-delete-operation', which is
emitted when item deletion is tried on an object which doesn't
have this ability. Closes issue #592.
* Fix a false positive of 'redundant-returns-doc', occurred when the documented
function was using *yield* instead of *return*.
Closes issue #984.
* Fix false positives of 'missing-[raises|params|type]-doc' due to not
recognizing keyword synonyms supported by Sphinx.
* Added a new refactoring message, 'consider-merging-isinstance', which is
emitted whenever we can detect that consecutive isinstance calls can be
merged together.
Closes issue #968
* Fix a false positive of 'missing-param-doc' and 'missing-type-doc',
occurred when a class docstring uses the 'For the parameters, see'
magic string but the class __init__ docstring does not, or vice versa.
* `redefined-outer-name` is now also emitted when a nested loop's target
variable is the same as a target variable in an outer loop.
Closes issue #911.
* Added proper exception type inference for 'missing-raises-doc'.
* Added InvalidMessageError exception class to replace asserts in
pylint.utils.
* More thorough validation in MessagesStore.register_messages() to avoid
one message accidentally overwriting another.
* InvalidMessageError, UnknownMessage, and EmptyReport exceptions are
moved to the new pylint.exceptions submodule.
* UnknownMessage and EmptyReport are renamed to UnknownMessageError and
EmptyReportError.
* Warnings 'missing-returns-type-doc' and 'missing-yields-type-doc'
have each been split into two warnings - 'missing-[return|yield]-doc'
and 'missing-[return|yield]-type-doc'.
* Added epytext support to docparams extension.
Closes #1029.
* Support having plugins with the same name and with options defined
Closes #1018
* Sort configuration options in a section
Closes #1087
* Added a new Python 3 warning around implementing '__div__', '__idiv__', or
'__rdiv__' as those methods are phased out in Python 3.
* Added a new warning, 'overlapping-except', which is
emitted when two exceptions in the same except-clause are aliases
for each other or one exceptions is an ancestor of another.
* Avoid crashing on ill-formatted strings when checking for string formatting errors.
* Added a new Python 3 warning for calling 'str.encode' or 'str.decode' with a non-text
encoding.
* Added new coding convention message, 'single-string-used-for-slots'.
Closes #1166
* Added a new Python 3 check for accessing 'sys.maxint' which was removed in Python 3 in favor
of 'sys.maxsize'
* Added a new Python 3 check for bad imports.
* Added a new Python 3 check for accessing deprecated string functions.
* Do not warn about unused arguments or function being redefined in singledispatch
registered implementations.
Closes #1032 and #1034
* Added refactoring message 'no-else-return'.
* Improve unused-variable checker to warn about unused variables in module scope.
Closes #919
* Ignore modules import as _ when checking for unused imports.
Closes #1190
* Improve handing of Python 3 classes with metaclasses declared in nested scopes.
Closes #1177
* Added refactoring message 'consider-using-ternary'.
Closes #1204
* Bug-fix for false-positive logging-format-interpolation` when format specifications
are used in formatted string.
Fixes #572
* Added a new switch ``single-line-class-stmt`` to allow single-line declaration
of empty class bodies.
Closes #738
* Protected access in form `type(self)._attribute` are now allowed.
Fixes #1031
* Let the user modify msg-template when Pylint is called from a Python script
Fixes #1269
* Imports checker supports new switch ``allow-wildcard-with-all`` which disables
warning on wildcard import when imported module defines `__all__` variable.
Fixes #831
* `too-many-format-args` and `too-few-format-args` are emitted correctly when
starred expression are used in RHS tuple.
Fixes #957
* `cyclic-import` checker supports local disable clauses. When one
of cycle imports was done in scope where disable clause was active,
cycle is not reported as violation.
Fixes #59
What's new in Pylint 1.6.3?
===========================
Release date: 2016-07-18
* Do not crash when inferring uninferable exception types for docparams extension
Close #998
What's new in Pylint 1.6.2?
===========================
Release date: TBA
* Do not crash when printing the help of options with default regular expressions
Close #990
* More granular versions for deprecated modules.
Close #991
What's new in Pylint 1.6.1?
===========================
Release date: 2016-07-07
* Use environment markers for supporting conditional dependencies.
What's New in Pylint 1.6.0?
===========================
Release date: 2016-07-03
* Added a new extension, `pylint.extensions.mccabe`, for warning
about complexity in code.
* Deprecate support for --optimize-ast. Part of #975.
* Deprecate support for the HTML output. Part of #975.
* Deprecate support for --output-files. Part of #975.
* Fixed a documentation error for the check_docs extension. Fixes #735.
* Made the list of property-defining decorators configurable.
* Fix a bug where the top name of a qualified import was detected as unused variable.
Close #923.
* bad-builtin is now an extension check.
* generated-members support qualified name through regular expressions.
For instance, one can specify a regular expression as --generated-members=astroid.node_classes.*
for ignoring every no-member error that is accessed as in `astroid.node_classes.missing.object`.
* Add the ability to ignore files based on regex matching, with the new ``--ignore-patterns``
option.
This addresses issue #156 by allowing for multiple ignore patterns
to be specified. Rather than clobber the existing ignore option, we
introduced a new one called ignore-patterns.
* Added a new error, 'trailing-newlines', which is emitted when a file
has trailing new lines.
Closes issue #682.
* Add a new option, 'redefining-builtins-modules', for controlling the modules
which can redefine builtins, such as six.moves and future.builtins.
Close #464.
* 'reimported' is emitted when the same name is imported from different module.
Close #162.
* Add a new recommendation checker, 'consider-iterating-dictionary', which is emitted
which is emitted when a dictionary is iterated through .keys().
Close #699
* Use the configparser backport for Python 2
This fixes a problem we were having with comments inside values, which is fixed
in Python 3's configparser.
Close #828
* A new error was added, 'invalid-length-returned', when the `__len__`
special method returned something else than a non-negative number.
Close issue #557
* Switch to using isort internally for wrong-import-order.
Closes #879.
* check_docs extension can find constructor parameters in __init__.
Closes #887.
* Don't warn about invalid-sequence-index if the indexed object has unknown base
classes.
Closes #867
* Don't crash when checking, for super-init-not-called, a method defined in an if block.
* Do not emit import-error or no-name-in-module for fallback import blocks by default.
Until now, we warned with these errors when a fallback import block (a TryExcept block
that contained imports for Python 2 and 3) was found, but this gets cumbersome when
trying to write compatible code. As such, we don't check these blocks by default,
but the analysis can be enforced by using the new ``--analyse-fallback-block`` flag.
Close #769.
What's New in Pylint 1.5.5?
===========================
Release date: 2016-03-21
* Let visit_importfrom from Python 3 porting checker be called when everything is disabled
Because the visit method was filtering the patterns it was expecting to be activated,
it didn't run when everything but one pattern was disabled, leading to spurious false
positives
Close #852
* Don't emit unsubscriptable-value for classes with unknown
base classes.
Close #776.
* Use an OrderedDict for storing the configuration elements
This fixes an issue related to impredictible order of the disable / enable
elements from a config file. In certain cases, the disable was coming before
the enable which resulted in classes of errors to be enabled, even though the intention
was to disable them. The best example for this was in the context of running multiple
processes, each one of it having different enables / disables that affected the output.
Close #815
* Don't consider bare and broad except handlers as ignoring NameError,
AttributeError and similar exceptions, in the context of checkers for
these issues.
Closes issue #826
What's New in Pylint 1.5.4?
===========================
Release date: 2016-01-15
* Merge StringMethodChecker with StringFormatChecker. This fixes a
bug where disabling all the messages and enabling only a handful of
messages from the StringFormatChecker would have resulted in no
messages at all.
* Don't apply unneeded-not over sets.
What's New in Pylint 1.5.3?
===========================
Release date: 2016-01-11
* Handle the import fallback idiom with regard to wrong-import-order.
Closes issue #750.
* Decouple the displaying of reports from the displaying of messages
Some reporters are aggregating the messages instead of displaying
them when they are available. The actual displaying was conflatted
in the generate_reports. Unfortunately this behaviour was flaky
and in the case of the JSON reporter, the messages weren't shown
at all if a file had syntax errors or if it was missing.
In order to fix this, the aggregated messages can now be
displayed with Reporter.display_message, while the reports are
displayed with display_reports.
Closes issues #766 and #765.
* Ignore function calls with variadic arguments without a context.
Inferring variadic positional arguments and keyword arguments
will result into empty Tuples and Dicts, which can lead in
some cases to false positives with regard to no-value-for-parameter.
In order to avoid this, until we'll have support for call context
propagation, we're ignoring such cases if detected.
Closes issue #722.
* Treat AsyncFunctionDef just like FunctionDef nodes,
by implementing visit_asyncfunctiondef in terms of
visit_functiondef.
Closes issue #767.
* Take in account kwonlyargs when verifying that arguments
are defined with the check_docs extension.
Closes issue #745.
* Suppress reporting 'unneeded-not' inside `__ne__` methods
Closes issue #749.
What's New in Pylint 1.5.2?
===========================
Release date: 2015-12-21
* Don't crash if graphviz is not installed, instead emit a
warning letting the user to know.
Closes issue #168.
* Accept only functions and methods for the deprecated-method checker.
This prevents a crash which can occur when an object doesn't have
.qname() method after the inference.
* Don't emit super-on-old-class on classes with unknown bases.
Closes issue #721.
* Allow statements in `if` or `try` blocks containing imports.
Closes issue #714.
What's New in Pylint 1.5.1?
===========================
Release date: 2015-12-02
* Fix a crash which occurred when old visit methods are encountered
in plugin modules. Closes issue #711.
* Add wrong-import-position to check_messages's decorator arguments
for ImportChecker.leave_module
This fixes an esoteric bug which occurs when ungrouped-imports and
wrong-import-order are disabled and pylint is executed on multiple files.
What happens is that without wrong-import-position in check_messages,
leave_module will never be called, which means that the first non-import node
from other files might leak into the current file,
leading to wrong-import-position being emitted by pylint.
* Fix a crash which occurred when old visit methods are encountered
in plugin modules. Closes issue #711.
* Don't emit import-self and cyclic-import for relative imports
of modules with the same name as the package itself.
Closes issues #708 and #706.
What's New in Pylint 1.5.0?
===========================
Release date: 2015-11-29
* Added multiple warnings related to imports. 'wrong-import-order'
is emitted when PEP 8 recommendations regarding imports are not
respected (that is, standard imports should be followed by third-party
imports and then by local imports). 'ungrouped-imports' is emitted
when imports from the same package or module are not placed
together, but scattered around in the code. 'wrong-import-position'
is emitted when code is mixed with imports, being recommended for the
latter to be at the top of the file, in order to figure out easier by
a human reader what dependencies a module has.
Closes issue #692.
* Added a new refactoring warning, 'unneeded-not', emitted
when an expression with the not operator could be simplified.
Closes issue #670.
* Added a new refactoring warning, 'simplifiable-if-statement',
used when an if statement could be reduced to a boolean evaluation
of its test. Closes issue #698.
* Added a new refactoring warning, 'too-many-boolean-expressions',
used when an if statement contains too many boolean expressions,
which makes the code less maintainable and harder to understand.
Closes issue #677.
* Property methods are shown as attributes instead of functions in
pyreverse class diagrams. Closes Issue #284
* Add a new refactoring error, 'too-many-nested-blocks', which is emitted
when a function or a method has too many nested blocks, which makes the
code less readable and harder to understand. Closes issue #668.
* Add a new error, 'unsubscriptable-object', that is emitted when
value used in subscription expression doesn't support subscription
(i.e. doesn't define __getitem__ method).
* Don't warn about abstract classes instantiated in their own
body. Closes issue #627.
* Obsolete options are not present by default in the generated
configuration file. Closes issue #632.
* non-iterator-returned can detect classes with iterator-metaclasses.
Closes issue #679.
* Add a new error, 'unsupported-membership-test', emitted when value
to the right of the 'in' operator doesn't support membership test
protocol (i.e. doesn't define __contains__/__iter__/__getitem__)
* Add new errors, 'not-an-iterable', emitted when non-iterable value
is used in an iterating context (starargs, for-statement,
comprehensions, etc), and 'not-a-mapping', emitted when non-mapping
value is used in a mapping context. Closes issue #563.
* Make 'no-self-use' checker not emit a warning if there is a 'super()'
call inside the method.
Closes issue #667.
* Add checker to identify multiple imports on one line.
Closes issue #598.
* Fix unused-argument false positive when the "+=" operator is used.
Closes issue #518.
* Don't emit import-error for ignored modules. PyLint will not emit import
errors for any import which is, or is a subpackage of, a module in
the ignored-modules list. Closes issue #223.
* Fix unused-import false positive when the import is used in a
class assignment. Closes issue #475
* Add a new error, 'not-context-manager', emitted when something
that doesn't implement __enter__ and __exit__ is used in a with
statement.
* Add a new warning, 'confusing-with-statement', emitted by the
base checker, when an ambiguous looking with statement is used.
For example `with open() as first, second` which looks like a
tuple assignment but is actually 2 context managers.
* Add a new warning, 'duplicate-except', emitted when there is an
exception handler which handles an exception type that was handled
before. Closes issue #485.
* A couple of warnings got promoted to errors, since they could uncover
potential bugs in the code. These warnings are: assignment-from-none,
unbalanced-tuple-unpacking, unpacking-non-sequence, non-iterator-returned.
Closes issue #388.
* Allow ending a pragma control with a semicolon. In this way, users
can continue a pragma control with a reason for why it is used,
as in `# pylint: disable=old-style-class;reason=...`.
Closes issue #449.
* --jobs can be used with --load-plugins now. Closes issue #456.
* Improve the performance of --jobs when dealing only with a package
name. Closes issue #479.
* Don't emit an unused-wildcard-import when the imported name comes
from another module and it is in fact a __future__ name.
* The colorized reporter now works on Windows. Closes issue #96.
* Remove pointless-except warning. It was previously disabled by
default and it wasn't very useful. Closes issue #506.
* Fix a crash on Python 3 related to the string checker, which
crashed when it encountered a bytes string with a .format
method called.
* Don't warn about no-self-use for builtin properties.
* Fix a false positive for bad-reversed-sequence, when a subclass
of a `dict` provides a __reversed__ method.
* Change the default no-docstring-rgx so missing-docstring isn't
emitted for private functions.
* Don't emit redefined-outer-name for __future__ directives.
Closes issue #520.
* Provide some hints for the bad-builtin message. Closes issue #522.
* When checking for invalid arguments to a callable, in typecheck.py,
look up for the __init__ in case the found __new__ comes from builtins.
Since the __new__ comes from builtins, it will not have attached any
information regarding what parameters it expects, so the check
will be useless. Retrieving __init__ in that case will at least
detect a couple of false negatives. Closes issue #429.
* Don't emit no-member for classes with unknown bases.
Since we don't know what those bases might add, we simply ignore
the error in this case.
* Lookup in the implicit metaclass when checking for no-member,
if the class in question has an implicit metaclass, which is
True for new style classes. Closes issue #438.
* Add two new warnings, duplicate-bases and inconsistent-mro.
duplicate-bases is emitted when a class has the same bases
listed more than once in its bases definition, while inconsistent-mro
is emitted when no sane mro hierarchy can be determined. Closes issue #526.
* Remove interface-not-implemented warning. Closes issue #532.
* Remove the rest of interface checks: interface-is-not-class,
missing-interface-method, unresolved-interface. The reason is that
its better to start recommending ABCs instead of the old Zope era
of interfaces. One side effect of this change is that ignore-iface-methods
becomes a noop, it's deprecated and it will be removed at some time.
* Emit a proper deprecation warning for reporters.BaseReporter.add_message.