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Release Date: 2018-08-10

* Make sure that assign nodes can find ``yield`` statements in their values

  Close PyCQA/pylint2400

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Release Date: 2018-08-08

* The environment markers for PyPy were invalid.

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Release Date: 2018-08-01

* Stop repeat inference attempt causing a RuntimeError in Python3.7

  Close PyCQA/pylint2317

*  infer_call_result can raise InferenceError so make sure to handle that for the call sites
   where it is used

  infer_call_result started recently to raise InferenceError for objects for which it
  could not find any returns. Previously it was silently raising a StopIteration,
  which was especially leaking when calling builtin methods.
  Since it is after all an inference method, it is expected that it
  could raise an InferenceError rather than returning nothing.

  Close PyCQA/pylint2350

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Release Date: 2018-07-19

* Released to clear an old wheel package on PyPI

==========================

Release Date: 2018-07-15

* String representation of nodes takes in account precedence and associativity rules of operators.

* Fix loading files with `modutils.load_from_module` when
  the path that contains it in `sys.path` is a symlink and
  the file is contained in a symlinked folder.

  Close 583

* Reworking of the numpy brain dealing with numerictypes
  (use of inspect module to determine the class hierarchy of
   numpy.core.numerictypes module)

  Close PyCQA/pylint2140

* Added inference support for starred nodes in for loops

  Close 146

* Support unpacking for dicts in assignments

  Close 268

* Add support for inferring functools.partial

  Close 125

* Inference support for `dict.fromkeys`

  Close 110

* `int()` builtin is inferred as returning integers.

  Close 150

* `str()` builtin is inferred as returning strings.

  Close 148

* DescriptorBoundMethod has the correct number of arguments defined.

* Improvement of the numpy numeric types definition.

  Close PyCQA/pylint1971

* Subclasses of *property* are now interpreted as properties

  Close PyCQA/pylint1601

* AsStringRegexpPredicate has been removed.

  Use transform predicates instead of it.

* Switched to using typed_ast for getting access to type comments

  As a side effect of this change, some nodes gained a new `type_annotation` attribute,
  which, if the type comments were correctly parsed, should contain a node object
  with the corresponding objects from the type comment.

* typing.X[...] and typing.NewType are inferred as classes instead of instances.

* Module.__path__ is now a list

  It used to be a string containing the path, but it doesn't reflect the situation
  on Python, where it is actually a list.

* Fix a bug with namespace package's __path__ attribute.

  Close 528

* Added brain tips for random.sample

  Part of PyCQA/pylint811

* Add brain tip for `issubclass` builtin

  Close 101.

* Fix submodule imports from six

  Close PyCQA/pylint1640

* Fix missing __module__ and __qualname__ from class definition locals

  Close PYCQA/pylint1753

* Fix a crash when __annotations__ access a parent's __init__ that does not have arguments

  Close 473

* Fix multiple objects sharing the same InferenceContext.path causing uninferable results

  Close 483

* Fix improper modification of col_offset, lineno upon inference of builtin functions

  Close PyCQA/pylint1839

* Subprocess.Popen brain now knows of the args member

  Close PyCQA/pylint1860

* add move_to_end method to collections.OrderedDict brain

  Close PyCQA/pylint1872

* Include new hashlib classes added in python 3.6

* Fix RecursionError for augmented assign

  Close 437, 447, 313, PyCQA/pylint1642, PyCQA/pylint1805, PyCQA/pylint1854, PyCQA/pylint1452

* Add missing attrs special attribute

  Close PyCQA/pylint1884

* Inference now understands the 'isinstance' builtin

  Close 98

* Stop duplicate nodes with the same key values
  from appearing in dictionaries from dictionary unpacking.

  Close PyCQA/pylint1843

* Fix ``contextlib.contextmanager`` inference for nested context managers

  Close 1699

* Implement inference for len builtin

  Close 112

* Add qname method to Super object preventing potential errors in upstream
  pylint

  Close 533

* Stop astroid from getting stuck in an infinite loop if a function shares
its name with its decorator

  Close 375

* Fix issue with inherited __call__ improperly inferencing self

  Close PyCQA/pylint2199

* Fix __call__ precedence for classes with custom metaclasses

  Close PyCQA/pylint2159

* Limit the maximum amount of interable result in an NodeNG.infer() call to
 100 by default for performance issues with variables with large amounts of
 possible values.

 The max inferable value can be tuned by setting the `max_inferable_values` flag on
 astroid.MANAGER.

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Release date: 2018-08-01

* `trailing-comma-tuple` gets emitted for ``yield`` statements as well.

   Close 2363

* Get only the arguments of the scope function for `redefined-argument-from-local`

  Close 2364

* Add a check `misplaced-format-function` which is emitted if format function is used on
  non str object.

  Close 2200

* `chain.from_iterable` no longer emits `dict-{}-not-iterating` when dealing with dict values and keys

* Demote the `try-except-raise` message from an error to a warning (E0705 -> W0706)

   Close 2323

* Correctly handle the new name of the Python implementation of the `abc` module.

  Close PyCQA/astroid2288

 * Modules with `__getattr__` are exempted by default from `no-member`

   There's no easy way to figure out if a module has a particular member when
   the said module uses `__getattr__`, which is a new addition to Python 3.7.
   Instead we assume the safe thing to do, in the same way we do for classes,
   and skip those modules from checking.

   Close 2331

 * Fix a false positive `invalid name` message when method or attribute name is longer then 30 characters.

   Close 2047

 * Include the type of the next branch in `no-else-return`

   Close 2295

 * Fix inconsistent behaviour for bad-continuation on first line of file

   Close 2281

  * Fix not being able to disable certain messages on the last line through
    the global disable option

    Close 2278

 * Don't emit `useless-return` when we have a single statement that is the return itself

   We still want to be explicit when a function is supposed to return
   an optional value; even though `pass` could still work, it's not explicit
   enough and the function might look like it's missing an implementation.
   Close 2300

* Fix false-positive undefined-variable for self referential class name in lamdbas

   Close 704

 * Don't crash when `pylint` is unable to infer the value of an argument to `next()`

   Close 2316

 * Don't emit `not-an-iterable` when dealing with async iterators.

   But do emit it when using the usual iteration protocol against
   async iterators.

   Close 2311

* Can specify a default docstring type for when the check cannot guess the type

   Close 1169

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Release date: 2018-07-15
 * `try-except-raise` should not be emitted if there are any parent exception class handlers.

    Close 2284

 * `trailing-comma-tuple` can be emitted for `return` statements as well.

    Close 2269

 * Fix a false positive ``inconsistent-return-statements`` message when exception is raised
   inside an else statement.

   Close 1782

 * `ImportFrom` nodes correctly use the full name for the import sorting checks.

   Close 2181

 * [].extend and similar builtin operations don't emit `dict-*-not-iterating` with the Python 3 porting checker

   Close 2187

 * Add a check `consider-using-dict-comprehension` which is emitted if for dict initialization
   the old style with list comprehensions is used.

 * Add a check `consider-using-set-comprehension` which is emitted if for set initialization
   the old style with list comprehensions is used.

 * `logging-not-lazy` is emitted whenever pylint infers that a string is built with addition

   Close 2193

 * Add a check `chained-comparison` which is emitted if a boolean operation can be simplified
   by chaining some of its operations.
   e.g "a < b and b < c", can be simplified as "a < b < c".

   Close 2032

 * Add a check `consider-using-in` for comparisons of a variable against
   multiple values with "==" and "or"s instead of checking if the variable
   is contained "in" a tuple of those values.

 * `in` is considered iterating context for some of the Python 3 porting checkers

   Close 2186

 * Add `--ignore-none` flag to control if pylint should warn about `no-member` where the owner is None

 * Fix a false positive related to `too-many-arguments` and bounded `__get__` methods

   Close 2172

 * `mcs` as the first parameter of metaclass's `__new__` method was replaced by `cls`

   Close 2028

 * `assignment-from-no-return` considers methods as well.

    Close 2081

 * Support typing.TYPE_CHECKING for *unused-import* errors

   Close 1948

 * Inferred classes at a function level no longer emit `invalid-name`
   when they don't respect the variable regular expression

   Close 1049

 * Added basic support for postponed evaluation of function annotations.

   Close 2069

 * Fix a bug with `missing-kwoa` and variadics parameters

   Close 1111

 * `simplifiable-if-statement` takes in account only when assigning to same targets

    Close 1984

 * Make ``len-as-condition`` test more cases, such as ``len() < 1`` or ``len <= 0``

 * Fix false-positive ``line-too-long`` message emission for
   commented line at the end of a module

   Close 1950

 * Fix false-positive ``bad-continuation`` for with statements

   Close 461

 * Don't warn about `stop-iteration-return` when using `next()` over `itertools.count`

   Close 2158

 * Add a check `consider-using-get` for unidiomatic usage of value/default-retrieval
   for a key from a dictionary

   Close 2076

 * invalid-slice-index is not emitted when the slice is used as index for a complex object.

   We only use a handful of known objects (list, set and friends) to figure out if
   we should emit invalid-slice-index when the slice is used to subscript an object.

 * Don't emit `unused-import` anymore for typing imports used in type comments.

 * Add a new check 'useless-import-alias'.

   Close 2052

 * Add `comparison-with-callable` to warn for comparison with bare callable, without calling it.

   Close 2082

 * Don't warn for ``missing-type-doc`` and/or ``missing-return-type-doc``, if type
   annotations exist on the function signature for a parameter and/or return type.
   Close 2083

 * Add `--exit-zero` option for continuous integration scripts to more
   easily call Pylint in environments that abort when a program returns a
   non-zero (error) status code.

   Close 2042

 * Warn if the first argument of an instance/ class method gets assigned

   Close 977

 * New check `comparison-with-itself` to check comparison between same value.

   Close 2051

 * Add a new warning, 'logging-fstring-interpolation', emitted when f-string
   is used within logging function calls.

   Close 1998

 * Don't show 'useless-super-delegation' if the subclass method has different type annotations.

   Close 1923

 * Add `unhashable-dict-key` check.

   Closes 586

 * Don't warn that a global variable is unused if it is defined by an import

   Close 1453

 * Skip wildcard import check for `__init__.py`.

   Close 2026

 * The Python 3 porting mode can now run with Python 3 as well.

 * `too-few-public-methods` is not emitted for dataclasses.

    Close 1793

 * New verbose mode option, enabled with `--verbose` command line flag, to
   display of extra non-checker-related output. It is disabled by default.

   Close 1863

 * `undefined-loop-variable` takes in consideration non-empty iterred objects before emitting

   Close 2039

 * Add support for numpydoc optional return value names.

   Close 2030

 * `singleton-comparison` accounts for negative checks

   Close 2037

 * Add a check `consider-using-in` for comparisons of a variable against
   multiple values with "==" and "or"s instead of checking if the variable
   is contained "in" a tuple of those values.

   Close 1977

 * defaultdict and subclasses of dict are now handled for dict-iter-* checks

   Close 2005

 * `logging-format-interpolation` also emits when f-strings are used instead of % syntax.

   Close 1788

 * Don't trigger misplaced-bare-raise when the raise is in a finally clause

   Close 1924

 * Add a new check, `possibly-unused-variable`.

   This is similar to `unused-variable`, the only difference is that it is
   emitted when we detect a locals() call in the scope of the unused variable.
   The `locals()` call could potentially use the said variable, by consuming
   all values that are present up to the point of the call. This new check
   allows to disable this error when the user intentionally uses `locals()`
   to consume everything.

   Close 1909.

 * `no-else-return` accounts for multiple cases

    The check was a bit overrestrictive because we were checking for
    return nodes in the .orelse node. At that point though the if statement
    can be refactored to not have the orelse. This improves the detection of
    other cases, for instance it now detects TryExcept nodes that are part of
    the .else branch.

    Close 1852

 * Added two new checks, `invalid-envvar-value` and `invalid-envvar-default`.

   The former is trigger whenever pylint detects that environment variable manipulation
   functions uses a different type than strings, while the latter is emitted whenever
   the said functions are using a default variable of different type than expected.

 * Add a check `consider-using-join` for concatenation of strings using str.join(sequence)

   Close 1952

 * Add a check `consider-swap-variables` for swapping variables with tuple unpacking

   Close 1922

 * Add new checker `try-except-raise` that warns the user if an except handler block
   has a ``raise`` statement as its first operator. The warning is shown when there is
   a bare raise statement, effectively re-raising the exception that was caught or the
   type of the exception being raised is the same as the one being handled.

 * Don't crash on invalid strings when checking for `logging-format-interpolation`

   Close 1944

 * Exempt `__doc__` from triggering a `redefined-builtin`

   `__doc__` can be used to specify a docstring for a module without
   passing it as a first-statement string.

 * Fix false positive bad-whitespace from function arguments with default
   values and annotations

   Close 1831

 * Fix stop-iteration-return false positive when next builtin has a
   default value in a generator

   Close 1830

 * 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

 * Fix error when checking if function is exception, as in ``bad-exception-context``.

 * Fix false positive ``inconsistent-return-statements`` message when a
   function is defined under an if statement.

   Close 1794

 * New ``useless-return`` message when function or method ends with a "return" or
   "return None" statement and this is the only return statement in the body.

 * Fix false positive ``inconsistent-return-statements`` message by
   avoiding useless exception inference if the exception is not handled.

   Close 1794 (second part)

 * Fix bad thread instantiation check when target function is provided in args.

   Close 1840

 * Fixed false positive when a numpy Attributes section follows a Parameters
   section

   Close 1867

 * Fix incorrect file path when file absolute path contains multiple ``path_strip_prefix`` strings.

   Close 1120

 * Fix false positive undefined-variable for lambda argument in class definitions

   Close 1824

 * Add of a new checker that warns the user if some messages are enabled or disabled
   by id instead of symbol.

   Close 1599

 * Suppress false-positive ``not-callable`` messages from certain
   staticmethod descriptors

   Close 1699

 * Fix indentation handling with tabs

   Close 1148

 * Fix false-positive ``bad-continuation`` error

   Close 638

 * Fix false positive unused-variable in lambda default arguments

   Close 1921
   Close 1552
   Close 1099
   Close 210

 * Updated the default report format to include paths that can be clicked on in some terminals (e.g. iTerm).

 * Fix inline def behavior with ``too-many-statements`` checker

   Close 1978

 * Fix `KeyError` raised when using docparams and NotImplementedError is documented.

   Close 2102

 * Fix 'method-hidden' raised when assigning to a property or data descriptor.

 * Fix emitting ``useless-super-delegation`` when changing the default value of keyword arguments.

   Close 2022

 * Expand ignored-argument-names include starred arguments and keyword arguments

   Close 2214

 * Fix false-postive undefined-variable in nested lambda

   Close 760

 * Fix false-positive ``bad-whitespace`` message for typing annoatations
   with ellipses in them

   Close 1992