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What's new in Pylint 2.17.5?

Release date: 2023-07-26

False Positives Fixed

• Fix a false positive for unused-variable when there is an import in a
  if TYPE_CHECKING: block and allow-global-unused-variables is set to
  no in the configuration.

  Closes #​8696

• Fix false positives generated when supplying arguments as **kwargs to IO
  calls like open().

  Closes #​8719

• Fix a false positive where pylint was ignoring method calls annotated as
  NoReturn during the inconsistent-return-statements check.

  Closes #​8747

• Exempt parents with only type annotations from the invalid-enum-extension
  message.

  Closes #​8830

Other Bug Fixes

• Fixed crash when a call to super() was placed after an operator (e.g.
  not).

  Closes #​8554

• Fix crash for modified-while-iterating checker when deleting
  members of a dict returned from a call.

  Closes #​8598

• Fix crash in invalid-metaclass check when a metaclass had duplicate
  bases.

  Closes #​8698

• Avoid consider-using-f-string on modulos with brackets in template.

  Closes #​8720.

• Fix a crash when __all__ exists but cannot be inferred.

  Closes #​8740

• Fix crash when a variable is assigned to a class attribute of identical name.

  Closes #​8754

• Fixed a crash when calling copy.copy() without arguments.

  Closes #​8774

Other Changes

• Fix a crash when a nonlocal is defined at module-level.

  Closes #​8735