false positive for 'import-self'

[kain88-de]

Steps to reproduce

1. checkout mdanalysis
2. install newest pylint
3. cd mdanalysis/package && pylint MDAnalysis

Current behavior

Empty function with a pass statement fails the lint. See for example

Corresponding failing travis job
and issue MDAnalysis/mdanalysis#2148

Expected behavior

Code is fine

pylint --version output

https://travis-ci.org/MDAnalysis/mdanalysis/jobs/460318184#L681

This only happens with the newest version. Older versions of pylint do not report an error.

[orbeckst]

empty function with a pass statement fails the lint.

I think you meant something like "standard relative import semantics from . import some_mod fail the lint", as show in the linked example.

[PCManticore]

Thanks for reporting the bug!

[ajasmin]

In a module named foo.threading, I have:

import threading

For which in pylint 2.6.0 yields import-self

I believe that since python now uses absolute imports, it should unambiguously import threading from the standard library and the diagnostic is incorrect.

Edit: This specific case reported as #3665

[DanielNoord]

@Pierre-Sassoulas I cannot reproduce this. Might have been fixed!

[Pierre-Sassoulas]

Closing as the issue is pointing to code that evolved since and it has a duplicate.