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Since 2006 / pylint 0.15.2, pylint caches its stats as pickles in PYLINT_HOME and reload them on the next run with pickle.load. Someone without access to the configuration or linted code, but with access to the cache directory (predictable PYLINT_HOME on a multi-user host) can write a crafted pickle that will runs arbitrary code when pylint access its stat cache.
Patches
From pylint 4.0.9, the result cache is now stored as JSON instead of pickle, preventing code-execution.
Workarounds
Until upgrading do not point PYLINT_HOME to an untrusted, shared, or group-writable directory. The default value, ~/.cache/pylint, is writable only by the user running pylint.
Credits
Reported privately via Tidelift coordinated disclosure (Dan Lenz).
Someone without access to the configuration or linted code, but with access
to the cache directory (predictable PYLINT_HOME on a multi-user host) can no
longer write a crafted pickle that will runs arbitrary code when pylint access its
stat cache. The result cache is now stored as JSON instead of pickle,
preventing code-execution. The workaround is upgrading or not pointing PYLINT_HOME
to an untrusted, shared, or group-writable directory. The default value, ~/.cache/pylint,
is writable only by the user running pylint. (CVE with the same information pending)
False Positives Fixed
Fixed a false positive for no-self-use on a method that only uses self before a locally defined class (or other nested method), because
the checker's could-be-a-function tracking state was not restored after
visiting the nested method.
Fix a false positive for unnecessary-direct-lambda-call when a directly called
lambda in a class body wraps a comprehension containing an assignment expression.
PEP 572 makes that a SyntaxError without the lambda's scope, so following the
message produced code that would not compile.
Fix a false positive for :ref:bad-exception-cause when the bases of the class
being raised from cannot be inferred, such as an exception deriving from a
C extension class. :ref:raising-non-exception and
:ref:catching-non-exception already guard the same inherit_from_std_ex
helper with has_known_bases.
method-hidden is no longer silenced when the hidden method shares its name with
a builtin function or with a function defined at module level. Only members of the
ancestor classes themselves can excuse the method now.
Fix a block-scoped # pylint: disable= directive placed inside an if
body leaking into sibling elif/else blocks for messages such as stop-iteration-return, which default to a line-based (rather than
node-based) message scope.
Fix a crash in method-hidden when a method shadows a name that builtins
binds to a node without a statement, such as help or license. Every class
inherits from object, which lives in the builtins module, so no base class
was needed to trigger it.
Fix a false positive for invalid-name (C0103) on names assigned in an if __name__ == "__main__": block. Such a block reads like a script body, so
a name there is now accepted if it matches either the constant or the variable
naming style.
Fix false positives for :ref:invalid-str-returned, :ref:invalid-repr-returned,
:ref:invalid-format-returned, :ref:invalid-bytes-returned, :ref:invalid-hash-returned,
:ref:invalid-index-returned, :ref:invalid-length-returned,
:ref:invalid-length-hint-returned, :ref:invalid-getnewargs-returned and
:ref:invalid-getnewargs-ex-returned when the returned value is an instance of a
subclass of the expected builtin type, such as self in a str subclass or a namedtuple.
Fix false positives for :ref:bad-string-format-type when the argument is an
instance of a subclass of int, float or str, such as bool or an IntEnum member formatted with %d.
Fix a crash in the docparams extension when a raised name does not infer to an exception, such as raise sum or raise some_module. Such objects have no ancestors(), which aborted the whole file with an astroid-error fatal message.
Fix a crash in the use-yield-from checker (AttributeError: 'Subscript' object has no attribute 'name') when a loop target is a subscript, attribute, or tuple.
Fix a crash in the docparams extension (AttributeError: 'AssignName' object has no attribute 'decorators') when a class has non-function attributes sharing the name of a property setter.
Fix a false positive for invalid-name when a module-level variable is assigned
an instance of a TypedDict subclass. Such a name is a value, not a type
definition, so it is now checked against the constant or variable regex instead
of class-rgx.
Fix a crash in the not-context-manager and not-async-context-manager
checks when the context manager infers to a value without a name, such as the slice returned by with slice(...) / async with slice(...).
Fix a false positive for nested-min-max (W3301) when the inner min/max call carries a keyword argument such as key=. Flattening the call dropped the keyword and changed the result, so nested calls whose inner call has keyword arguments are no longer flagged.
Fix a false suggestion from nested-min-max (W3301): when rewriting a nested min/max into a splat call, arguments positioned after the splatted call were silently dropped, so the suggested code changed the result.
Fix a false positive for too-many-locals (R0914): PEP 695 type parameters, i.e. the T1 and T2 in a generic def f[T1, T2] signature, were counted as local variables. They are type-system constructs, not runtime locals, and are now excluded from the local-variable count.
Fix literal-comparison (R0123) emitting a corrupted suggestion for identifiers
that contain is (e.g. axis is 5 was rendered ax== == 5). The suggestion
is now rebuilt from the operands and operator.
Fix false positives in bad-string-format-type (E1307) for valid % formatting: %i/%u applied to a float (both truncate like %d) and %a applied to any
non-int type (%a is type-agnostic like %s/%r).
too-many-lines could be reported at the line of a # pylint: disable=too-many-lines
pragma found in a previously linted module. Pragma positions are now reset between
modules, so the message is reported at line 1 (or at the current module's own pragma)
regardless of which files were linted before.
implicit-str-concat is no longer emitted for an implicit concatenation of
a raw string with a non-raw one (e.g. r"\d" "\n"). Such literals cannot be
merged into a single string, so the concatenation is intentional rather than a
forgotten comma.
Fix a false positive for function-redefined (E0102) when reusing names that
match dummy-variables-rgx (such as _), which is common for pytest-bdd step definitions. This restores the behavior from before pylint
4.0.0; as a consequence the false negative fixed in #9894 is reintroduced for
functions whose name matches dummy-variables-rgx.
Fix a false positive for unused-variable where global variables matching dummy-variables-rgx were still reported as unused when allow-global-unused-variables was disabled.
Fix the suggestion of unnecessary-comprehension for a dict comprehension
that iterates a dict directly, e.g. {a: b for a, b in d}. Iterating a dict
yields its keys, so the suggestion is now dict(d.keys()) instead of the
incorrect dict(d), which would simply copy d.
Fix a crash in consider-using-enumerate when the for loop target is an attribute (e.g. for self.idx in range(len(x))) rather than a simple variable name.
Fix add_message silently overwriting an explicit col_offset=0 (or any other zero-valued line/end_lineno/end_col_offset) with the AST node's value. The internal _add_one_message helper used a falsey check (if not col_offset:) to detect an omitted argument, which incorrectly treated a legitimate 0 the same as None. It now uses an identity check against None.
Fix a crash in the variables checker when NotImplemented is used as the test of an if statement, which raised a TypeError in a boolean context on Python 3.14.
Fix a crash in the variables checker when a class declares a metaclass whose
attribute-access chain does not bottom out at a name (e.g. class C(metaclass=None._)).
Originally reported as pylint-dev/astroid#3066.
Fix a crash in the name checker when a chained assignment of a TypeAlias
value has a non-name target such as a Subscript (for example a[0] = b = TypeAlias).
Allow digits in ParamSpec and TypeVarTuple names for invalid-name check.
The default paramspec-rgx and typevartuple-rgx patterns rejected names
containing digits (e.g. Ec2P, S3Ts), emitting a false invalid-name
(C0103). Allow digits in the lowercase segments, consistent with the typevar and typealias patterns.
The duplicate-code checker no longer runs when its message (R0801) is disabled, even if reports=yes is set. Previously, the checker's report (RP0801) would cause the expensive similarity computation to run regardless.
Fixed false positive for logging-unsupported-format when no arguments are provided to logging functions.
According to Python's logging documentation, no formatting is performed when no arguments are supplied, so strings like logging.error("%test") are valid.
Fix a false positive for invalid-name where a dataclass field typed with Final
was evaluated against the class_const regex instead of the class_attribute regex.
Fixed false positive for invalid-name where module-level constants were incorrectly classified as variables when a class-level attribute with the same name exists.
Add Enum dunder methods _generate_next_value_, _missing_, _numeric_repr_, _add_alias_, and _add_value_alias_ to the list passed to --good-dunder-names.
Fix a false positive for unbalanced-tuple-unpacking when a tuple is assigned to a function call and the structure of the function's return value is ambiguous.
Fix a false positive for invalid-name on exclusive module-level assignments
composed of three or more branches. We won't raise disallowed-name on module-level names that can't be inferred
until a further refactor to remove this false negative is done.
Pylint's inference engine (astroid) is now much more precise,
understanding implicit booleanness and ternary expressions. (Thanks @zenlyj!)
Consider this example:
classResult:
errors: dict|None=Noneresult=Result()
ifresult.errors:
result.errors[field_key]
# inference engine understands result.errors cannot be None# pylint no longer raises unsubscriptable-object
The required astroid version is now 4.0.0. See the astroid changelog for additional fixes, features, and performance improvements applicable to pylint.
Handling of invalid-name at the module level was patchy. Now,
module-level constants that are reassigned are treated as variables and checked
against --variable-rgx rather than --const-rgx. Module-level lists,
sets, and objects can pass against either regex.
Here, LIMIT is reassigned, so pylint only uses --variable-rgx:
invalid-name now distinguishes module-level constants that are assigned only once
from those that are reassigned and now applies --variable-rgx to the latter. Values
other than literals (lists, sets, objects) can pass against either the constant or
variable regexes (e.g. "LOGGER" or "logger" but not "LoGgEr").
Remember that --good-names or --good-names-rgxs can be provided to explicitly
allow good names.
pyreverseRun was changed to no longer call sys.exit() in its __init__.
You should now call Run(args).run() which will return the exit code instead.
Having a class that always raised a SystemExit exception was considered a bug.
Normal usage of pyreverse through the CLI will not be affected by this change.
The suggestion-mode option was removed, as pylint now always emits user-friendly hints instead
of false-positive error messages. You should remove it from your conf if it's defined.
The async.py checker module has been renamed to async_checker.py since async is a Python keyword
and cannot be imported directly. This allows for better testing and extensibility of the async checker functionality.
Version requirement for isort has been bumped to >=5.0.0.
The internal compatibility for older isort versions exposed via pylint.utils.IsortDriver has
been removed.
comparison-of-constants now uses the unicode from the ast instead of reformatting from
the node's values preventing some bad formatting due to utf-8 limitation. The message now uses " instead of ' to better work with what the python ast returns.
Enhanced pyreverse to properly distinguish between UML relationship types (association, aggregation, composition) based on object ownership semantics. Type annotations without assignment are now treated as associations, parameter assignments as aggregations, and object instantiation as compositions.
The fixme check can now search through docstrings as well as comments, by using check-fixme-in-docstring = true in the [tool.pylint.miscellaneous] section.
The use-implicit-booleaness-not-x checks now distinguish between comparisons
used in boolean contexts and those that are not, enabling them to provide more accurate refactoring suggestions.
The verbose option now outputs the filenames of the files that have been checked.
Previously, it only included the number of checked and skipped files.
colorized reporter now colorizes messages/categories that have been configured as fail-on in red inverse.
This makes it easier to quickly find the errors that are causing pylint CI job failures.
Add --max-depth option to pyreverse to control diagram complexity. A depth of 0 shows only top-level packages, 1 shows one level of subpackages, etc.
This helps manage visualization of large codebases by limiting the depth of displayed packages and classes.
Add match-statements checker and the following message: bare-name-capture-pattern.
This will emit an error message when a name capture pattern is used in a match statement which would make the remaining patterns unreachable.
This code is a SyntaxError at runtime.
Add break-in-finally warning. Using break inside the finally clause
will raise a syntax warning in Python 3.14.
See PEP 765 - Disallow return/break/continue that exit a finally block <https://peps.python.org/pep-0765/>_.
Add a consider-math-not-float message. float("nan") and float("inf") are slower
than their counterpart math.inf and math.nan by a factor of 4 (notwithstanding
the initial import of math) and they are also not well typed when using mypy.
This check also catches typos in float calls as a side effect.
The :ref:pylint.extensions.code_style need to be activated for this check to work.
Fix a false positive for used-before-assignment when a variable defined under
an if and via a named expression (walrus operator) is used later when guarded
under the same if test.
We now raise a logging-too-few-args for format string with no
interpolation arguments at all (i.e. for something like logging.debug("Awaiting process %s")
or logging.debug("Awaiting process {pid}")). Previously we did not raise for such case.
When displaying unicode with surrogates (or other potential UnicodeEncodeError),
pylint will now display a '?' character (using encode(encoding="utf-8", errors="replace"))
instead of crashing. The functional tests classes are also updated to handle this case.
Updated the development environment’s Python version metadata and refreshed its code-quality tooling.
Removed obsolete development environment entries and adjusted the remaining configuration. These changes do not alter user-facing application behavior.
The development requirements file updates its generated-file comment to identify Python 3.13. It upgrades astroid and pylint, removes several dependency entries, and updates the tomlkit and typing-extensions entries.
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This PR contains the following updates:
3.3.9→4.0.9Pylint: Arbitrary code execution via pickle deserialization of the stats cache in PYLINT_HOME
CVE-2026-114608 / GHSA-22qq-2fwx-7p67
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Impact
Since 2006 / pylint 0.15.2, pylint caches its stats as pickles in
PYLINT_HOMEand reload them on the next run withpickle.load. Someone without access to the configuration or linted code, but with access to the cache directory (predictablePYLINT_HOMEon a multi-user host) can write a crafted pickle that will runs arbitrary code when pylint access its stat cache.Patches
From pylint 4.0.9, the result cache is now stored as JSON instead of pickle, preventing code-execution.
Workarounds
Until upgrading do not point
PYLINT_HOMEto an untrusted, shared, or group-writable directory. The default value,~/.cache/pylint, is writable only by the user running pylint.Credits
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CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NReferences
This data is provided by the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0).
Release Notes
pylint-dev/pylint (pylint)
v4.0.9Compare Source
What's new in Pylint 4.0.9?
Release date: 2026-09-23
Security Fixes
to the cache directory (predictable
PYLINT_HOMEon a multi-user host) can nolonger write a crafted pickle that will runs arbitrary code when pylint access its
stat cache. The result cache is now stored as JSON instead of pickle,
preventing code-execution. The workaround is upgrading or not pointing
PYLINT_HOMEto an untrusted, shared, or group-writable directory. The default value,
~/.cache/pylint,is writable only by the user running pylint. (CVE with the same information pending)
False Positives Fixed
Fixed a false positive for
no-self-useon a method that only usesselfbefore a locally defined class (or other nested method), becausethe checker's could-be-a-function tracking state was not restored after
visiting the nested method.
Closes #3705
Fix a false positive for :ref:
not-callablewhen calling functions constructed withtypes.FunctionTypeortypes.LambdaType.Closes #7500
Fix a false positive for
unnecessary-direct-lambda-callwhen a directly calledlambda in a class body wraps a comprehension containing an assignment expression.
PEP 572 makes that a
SyntaxErrorwithout the lambda's scope, so following themessage produced code that would not compile.
Closes #9294
Fix a false positive for :ref:
unnecessary-ellipsiswhen an ellipsis is thesole body statement of a method defined on a
Protocol.Closes #9319
Fix a false positive for :ref:
bad-exception-causewhen the bases of the classbeing raised from cannot be inferred, such as an exception deriving from a
C extension class. :ref:
raising-non-exceptionand:ref:
catching-non-exceptionalready guard the sameinherit_from_std_exhelper with
has_known_bases.Refs #11399
False Negatives Fixed
method-hiddenis no longer silenced when the hidden method shares its name witha builtin function or with a function defined at module level. Only members of the
ancestor classes themselves can excuse the method now.
Refs #11361
Other Bug Fixes
Fix a block-scoped
# pylint: disable=directive placed inside anifbody leaking into sibling
elif/elseblocks for messages such asstop-iteration-return, which default to a line-based (rather thannode-based) message scope.
Closes #3136
Fix a false positive for
declare-non-slotwhen a class variable isannotated with
ClassVarwithout an initial value.Closes #9950
Fix a crash in the
no-memberchecker when attribute lookup raises anInferenceError.Closes #11356
Fix a crash in the
unnecessary-default-type-argscheck when aGeneratoror
AsyncGeneratorsubscript holds an empty tuple, such asGenerator[()].Closes #11357
Fix a crash in
method-hiddenwhen a method shadows a name thatbuiltinsbinds to a node without a statement, such as
helporlicense. Every classinherits from
object, which lives in thebuiltinsmodule, so no base classwas needed to trigger it.
Closes #11361
Closes #8079
v4.0.8Compare Source
What's new in Pylint 4.0.8?
Release date: 2026-08-29
False Positives Fixed
Fix a false positive for :ref:
unspecified-encodingwhen anopencall uses a modeargument that cannot be inferred.
Closes #10201
Fix a false positive for
invalid-name(C0103) on names assigned in anif __name__ == "__main__":block. Such a block reads like a script body, soa name there is now accepted if it matches either the constant or the variable
naming style.
Closes #10766
Fix false positives for :ref:
invalid-str-returned, :ref:invalid-repr-returned,:ref:
invalid-format-returned, :ref:invalid-bytes-returned, :ref:invalid-hash-returned,:ref:
invalid-index-returned, :ref:invalid-length-returned,:ref:
invalid-length-hint-returned, :ref:invalid-getnewargs-returnedand:ref:
invalid-getnewargs-ex-returnedwhen the returned value is an instance of asubclass of the expected builtin type, such as
selfin astrsubclass or anamedtuple.Closes #11306
Fix false positives for :ref:
bad-string-format-typewhen the argument is aninstance of a subclass of
int,floatorstr, such asboolor anIntEnummember formatted with%d.Closes #11315
False Negatives Fixed
redundant-unittest-assertnow also flagsassertEqualandassertNotEqualwhen both compared values are constants, e.g.
self.assertEqual(5, 5).Closes #11321
Other Bug Fixes
Fix a crash in the
docparamsextension when a raised name does not infer to an exception, such asraise sumorraise some_module. Such objects have noancestors(), which aborted the whole file with anastroid-errorfatal message.Closes #11228
Fix a crash in the
use-yield-fromchecker (AttributeError: 'Subscript' object has no attribute 'name') when a loop target is a subscript, attribute, or tuple.Closes #11286
Fix a crash in the
docparamsextension (AttributeError: 'AssignName' object has no attribute 'decorators') when a class has non-function attributes sharing the name of a property setter.Closes #11287
Other Changes
Upgrade the
isortupper bound soisort9 can be installed alongside pylint.Closes #11351
v4.0.7Compare Source
What's new in Pylint 4.0.7?
Release date: 2026-08-09
False Positives Fixed
Fix a false positive for
invalid-namewhen a module-level variable is assignedan instance of a
TypedDictsubclass. Such a name is a value, not a typedefinition, so it is now checked against the constant or variable regex instead
of
class-rgx.Closes #11231
Other Bug Fixes
Fix a crash in the
bad-open-modecheck when themodeargument ofopenis theNotImplementedconstant (Python >= 3.14).Closes #11099
Fix a crash in the
not-context-managerandnot-async-context-managerchecks when the context manager infers to a value without a name, such as the
slicereturned bywith slice(...)/async with slice(...).Closes #11102
Fix a false positive for
nested-min-max(W3301) when the innermin/maxcall carries a keyword argument such askey=. Flattening the call dropped the keyword and changed the result, so nested calls whose inner call has keyword arguments are no longer flagged.Closes #11130
Fix a false suggestion from
nested-min-max(W3301): when rewriting a nestedmin/maxinto a splat call, arguments positioned after the splatted call were silently dropped, so the suggested code changed the result.Closes #11134
Fix a false positive for
too-many-locals(R0914): PEP 695 type parameters, i.e. theT1andT2in a genericdef f[T1, T2]signature, were counted as local variables. They are type-system constructs, not runtime locals, and are now excluded from the local-variable count.Closes #11136
Fix
literal-comparison(R0123) emitting a corrupted suggestion for identifiersthat contain
is(e.g.axis is 5was renderedax== == 5). The suggestionis now rebuilt from the operands and operator.
Closes #11146
Fix false positives in
bad-string-format-type(E1307) for valid%formatting:%i/%uapplied to a float (both truncate like%d) and%aapplied to anynon-int type (
%ais type-agnostic like%s/%r).Closes #11147
Fix a false positive for :ref:
useless-parent-delegationwhen an override changesthe default value of a positional-only parameter.
Closes #11148
Fixed a crash in
comparison-with-callablewhen comparing a lambda assigned as a class attribute.Closes #11175
too-many-linescould be reported at the line of a# pylint: disable=too-many-linespragma found in a previously linted module. Pragma positions are now reset between
modules, so the message is reported at line 1 (or at the current module's own pragma)
regardless of which files were linted before.
Refs #11191
Fix a crash when a call unpacks a dictionary whose keys are not string
constants, e.g.
copy.copy(**{-1: 1}).Closes #11222
v4.0.6Compare Source
What's new in Pylint 4.0.6?
Release date: 2026-06-14
False Positives Fixed
implicit-str-concatis no longer emitted for an implicit concatenation ofa raw string with a non-raw one (e.g.
r"\d" "\n"). Such literals cannot bemerged into a single string, so the concatenation is intentional rather than a
forgotten comma.
Closes #6663
Fix a false positive for
invalid-name(C0103) where the defaulttypevar-rgxrejectedTypeVarnames containing digits, such asEc2T.Closes #8499
Fix a false positive for
too-many-argumentsin (non-static) methods and classmethods.Closes #8675
Fix a false positive for
no-memberwhen a value is inferred to severalpossible types and at least one of them defines a dynamic
__getattr__.Closes #9833
Fix a false positive for
function-redefined(E0102) when reusing names thatmatch
dummy-variables-rgx(such as_), which is common forpytest-bddstep definitions. This restores the behavior from before pylint4.0.0; as a consequence the false negative fixed in #9894 is reintroduced for
functions whose name matches
dummy-variables-rgx.Closes #10665
Fix
undefined-variablefalse positive when a name used as ametaclassargument in a nested class is referenced again later in the module.
Closes #10823
Fix a false positive for
unused-variablewhere global variables matchingdummy-variables-rgxwere still reported as unused whenallow-global-unused-variableswas disabled.Closes #10890
Fix a false positive for
bad-dunder-namewhen there is a user-defined__suppress_context__attribute on exception subclasses.Closes #10960
Fix
used-before-assignmentfalse positive for names bound byfrom X import *in every branch of anif/elif/elsechain.Refs #10980
Check for metaclass call signature when evaluating arguments of a class call.
Closes #11032
Fix false positive
method-hiddenwhencached_propertyis imported directly withfrom functools import cached_property.Refs #11037
Other Bug Fixes
Fix the suggestion of
unnecessary-comprehensionfor a dict comprehensionthat iterates a dict directly, e.g.
{a: b for a, b in d}. Iterating a dictyields its keys, so the suggestion is now
dict(d.keys())instead of theincorrect
dict(d), which would simply copyd.Closes #8256
Fix a crash in
consider-using-enumeratewhen theforloop target is an attribute (e.g.for self.idx in range(len(x))) rather than a simple variable name.Closes #10099
Fix crash when checking
attribute-defined-outside-initon classes that inherit from a base class pylint cannot fully analyze.Closes #10892
Fix
add_messagesilently overwriting an explicitcol_offset=0(or any other zero-valuedline/end_lineno/end_col_offset) with the AST node's value. The internal_add_one_messagehelper used a falsey check (if not col_offset:) to detect an omitted argument, which incorrectly treated a legitimate0the same asNone. It now uses an identity check againstNone.Refs #11020
Fix a crash in the name checker when a non-constant value is passed as the
covariantorcontravariantargument of aTypeVar.Closes #11022
Fix a crash in the variable checker when a name resolves to a dataclass-synthesized
__init__, which has no line number.Closes #11023
Fix a crash in the variables checker when
NotImplementedis used as the test of anifstatement, which raised aTypeErrorin a boolean context on Python 3.14.Closes #11025
Avoided a crash from the implicit booleaness checker for
len()calls without arguments.Closes #11028
Fix a crash in the variables checker when a class declares a metaclass whose
attribute-access chain does not bottom out at a name (e.g.
class C(metaclass=None._)).Originally reported as
pylint-dev/astroid#3066.Refs #11031
Fix a crash in the name checker when a chained assignment of a
TypeAliasvalue has a non-name target such as a
Subscript(for examplea[0] = b = TypeAlias).Closes #11056
Fix a crash in the deprecated checker when
__import__is called with anon-string constant argument (for example
__import__(1)).Closes #11059
Avoid crashing when enum member inference fails while checking enum subclasses.
Closes #11069
Prevent a crash in
unexpected-keyword-arganalysis wheninfer_call_result()raisesInferenceErrorwhile inspectingdecorator return signatures.
Closes #11070
Fix a crash in the typecheck checker when a class uses a non-class object
(for example a function) as its
metaclass=argument.Closes #11071
Allow digits in ParamSpec and TypeVarTuple names for
invalid-namecheck.The default
paramspec-rgxandtypevartuple-rgxpatterns rejected namescontaining digits (e.g.
Ec2P,S3Ts), emitting a falseinvalid-name(C0103). Allow digits in the lowercase segments, consistent with the
typevarandtypealiaspatterns.Closes #11090
Performance Improvements
The duplicate-code checker no longer runs when its message (R0801) is disabled, even if
reports=yesis set. Previously, the checker's report (RP0801) would cause the expensive similarity computation to run regardless.Closes #3443
v4.0.5Compare Source
What's new in Pylint 4.0.5?
Release date: 2026-02-20
False Positives Fixed
Fix possibly-used-before-assignment false positive when using self.fail() in tests.
Closes #10743
Fixed false positive for
logging-unsupported-formatwhen no arguments are provided to logging functions.According to Python's logging documentation, no formatting is performed when no arguments are supplied, so strings like
logging.error("%test")are valid.Closes #10752
Fix a false positive for
invalid-namewhere a dataclass field typed withFinalwas evaluated against the
class_constregex instead of theclass_attributeregex.Closes #10790
Avoid emitting
unspecified-encoding(W1514) whenpy-versionis 3.15+.Refs #10791
Other Bug Fixes
Fix
--known_third_partyconfig being ignored.Closes #10801
Fixed dynamic color mapping for "fail-on" messages when using multiple reporter/output formats.
Closes #10825
dependency on isort is now set to <9, permitting to use isort 8.
Closes #10857
v4.0.4Compare Source
What's new in Pylint 4.0.4?
Release date: 2025-11-30
False Positives Fixed
Fixed false positive for
invalid-namewhere module-level constants were incorrectly classified as variables when a class-level attribute with the same name exists.Closes #10719
Fix a false positive for
invalid-nameon an UPPER_CASED name inside anifbranch that assigns an object.Closes #10745
v4.0.3Compare Source
What's new in Pylint 4.0.3?
Release date: 2025-11-13
False Positives Fixed
Add Enum dunder methods
_generate_next_value_,_missing_,_numeric_repr_,_add_alias_, and_add_value_alias_to the list passed to--good-dunder-names.Closes #10435
Fixed false positive for
invalid-namewithtyping.Annotated.Closes #10696
Fix false positive for
f-string-without-interpolationwith template stringswhen using format spec.
Closes #10702
Fix a false positive when an UPPER_CASED class attribute was raising an
invalid-namewhen typed withFinal.Closes #10711
Fix a false positive for
unbalanced-tuple-unpackingwhen a tuple is assigned to a function call and the structure of the function's return value is ambiguous.Closes #10721
Other Bug Fixes
Make 'ignore' option work as expected again.
Closes #10669
Fix crash for
consider-using-assignment-exprwhen a variable annotation without assignmentis used as the
iftest expression.Closes #10707
Fix crash for
prefer-typing-namedtupleandconsider-math-not-floatwhena
sliceobject is called.Closes #10708
v4.0.2Compare Source
False Positives Fixed
Fix false positive for
invalid-nameon a partially uninferable module-level constant.Closes #10652
Fix a false positive for
invalid-nameon exclusive module-level assignmentscomposed of three or more branches. We won't raise
disallowed-nameon module-level names that can't be inferreduntil a further refactor to remove this false negative is done.
Closes #10664
Fix false positive for
invalid-nameforTypedDictinstances.Closes #10672
v4.0.1Compare Source
What's new in Pylint 4.0.1?
Release date: 2025-10-14
False Positives Fixed
Exclude
__all__and__future__.annotationsfromunused-variable.Closes #10019
Fix false-positive for
bare-name-capture-patternif a case guard is used.Closes #10647
Check enums created with the
Enum()functional syntax to pass against the--class-rgxfor theinvalid-namecheck, like other enums.Closes #10660
v4.0.0Compare Source
Pylint now supports Python 3.14.
Pylint's inference engine (
astroid) is now much more precise,understanding implicit booleanness and ternary expressions. (Thanks @zenlyj!)
Consider this example:
The required
astroidversion is now 4.0.0. See the astroid changelog for additional fixes, features, and performance improvements applicable to pylint.invalid-nameat the module level was patchy. Now,module-level constants that are reassigned are treated as variables and checked
against
--variable-rgxrather than--const-rgx. Module-level lists,sets, and objects can pass against either regex.
Here,
LIMITis reassigned, so pylint only uses--variable-rgx:If this is undesired, refactor using exclusive assignment so that it is
evident that this assignment happens only once:
Lists, sets, and objects still pass against either
const-rgxorvariable-rgxeven if reassigned, but are no longer completely skipped:
Remember to adjust the regexes and allow lists to your liking.
Breaking Changes
invalid-namenow distinguishes module-level constants that are assigned only oncefrom those that are reassigned and now applies
--variable-rgxto the latter. Valuesother than literals (lists, sets, objects) can pass against either the constant or
variable regexes (e.g. "LOGGER" or "logger" but not "LoGgEr").
Remember that
--good-namesor--good-names-rgxscan be provided to explicitlyallow good names.
Closes #3585
The unused
pylintrcargument toPyLinter.__init__()is deprecatedand will be removed.
Refs #6052
Commented out code blocks such as
# bar() # TODO: remove dead codewill no longer emitfixme.Refs #9255
pyreverseRunwas changed to no longer callsys.exit()in its__init__.You should now call
Run(args).run()which will return the exit code instead.Having a class that always raised a
SystemExitexception was considered a bug.Normal usage of pyreverse through the CLI will not be affected by this change.
Refs #9689
The
suggestion-modeoption was removed, as pylint now always emits user-friendly hints insteadof false-positive error messages. You should remove it from your conf if it's defined.
Refs #9962
The
async.pychecker module has been renamed toasync_checker.pysinceasyncis a Python keywordand cannot be imported directly. This allows for better testing and extensibility of the async checker functionality.
Refs #10071
The message-id of
continue-in-finallywas changed fromE0116toW0136. The warning isnow emitted for every Python version since it will raise a syntax warning in Python 3.14.
See PEP 765 - Disallow return/break/continue that exit a finally block.
Refs #10480
Removed support for
nmp.NaNalias fornumpy.NaNbeing recognized in ':ref:nan-comparison'. Usenpornumpyinstead.Refs #10583
Version requirement for
isorthas been bumped to >=5.0.0.The internal compatibility for older
isortversions exposed viapylint.utils.IsortDriverhasbeen removed.
Refs #10637
New Features
comparison-of-constantsnow uses the unicode from the ast instead of reformatting fromthe node's values preventing some bad formatting due to
utf-8limitation. The message now uses"instead of'to better work with what the python ast returns.Refs #8736
Enhanced pyreverse to properly distinguish between UML relationship types (association, aggregation, composition) based on object ownership semantics. Type annotations without assignment are now treated as associations, parameter assignments as aggregations, and object instantiation as compositions.
Closes #9045
Closes #9267
The
fixmecheck can now search through docstrings as well as comments, by usingcheck-fixme-in-docstring = truein the[tool.pylint.miscellaneous]section.Closes #9255
The
use-implicit-booleaness-not-xchecks now distinguish between comparisonsused in boolean contexts and those that are not, enabling them to provide more accurate refactoring suggestions.
Closes #9353
The verbose option now outputs the filenames of the files that have been checked.
Previously, it only included the number of checked and skipped files.
Closes #9357
colorized reporter now colorizes messages/categories that have been configured as
fail-onin red inverse.This makes it easier to quickly find the errors that are causing pylint CI job failures.
Closes #9898
Enhanced support for @property decorator in pyreverse to correctly display return types of annotated properties when generating class diagrams.
Closes #10057
Add --max-depth option to pyreverse to control diagram complexity. A depth of 0 shows only top-level packages, 1 shows one level of subpackages, etc.
This helps manage visualization of large codebases by limiting the depth of displayed packages and classes.
Refs #10077
Handle deferred evaluation of annotations in Python 3.14.
Closes #10149
Enhanced pyreverse to properly detect aggregations for comprehensions (list, dict, set, generator).
Closes #10236
pyreverse: add support for colorized output when using output formatmmd(MermaidJS) andhtml.Closes #10242
pypy 3.11 is now officially supported.
Refs #10287
Add support for Python 3.14.
Refs #10467
Add naming styles for
ParamSpecandTypeVarTuplethat align with theTypeVarstyle.Refs #10541
New Checks
Add
match-statementschecker and the following message:bare-name-capture-pattern.This will emit an error message when a name capture pattern is used in a match statement which would make the remaining patterns unreachable.
This code is a SyntaxError at runtime.
Closes #7128
Add new check
async-context-manager-with-regular-withto detect async context managers used with regularwithstatements instead ofasync with.Refs #10408
Add
break-in-finallywarning. Usingbreakinside thefinallyclausewill raise a syntax warning in Python 3.14.
See
PEP 765 - Disallow return/break/continue that exit a finally block <https://peps.python.org/pep-0765/>_.Refs #10480
Add new checks for invalid uses of class patterns in :keyword:
match.invalid-match-args-definitionis emitted if :py:data:object.__match_args__isn't a tuple of strings.too-many-positional-sub-patternsif there are more positional sub-patterns than specified in :py:data:object.__match_args__.multiple-class-sub-patternsif there are multiple sub-patterns for the same attribute.Refs #10559
Add additional checks for suboptimal uses of class patterns in :keyword:
match.match-class-bind-selfis emitted if a name is bound toselfinstead ofusing an
aspattern.match-class-positional-attributesis emitted if a class pattern has positionalattributes when keywords could be used.
Refs #10587
Add a
consider-math-not-floatmessage.float("nan")andfloat("inf")are slowerthan their counterpart
math.infandmath.nanby a factor of 4 (notwithstandingthe initial import of math) and they are also not well typed when using mypy.
This check also catches typos in float calls as a side effect.
The :ref:
pylint.extensions.code_styleneed to be activated for this check to work.Refs #10621
False Positives Fixed
Fix a false positive for
used-before-assignmentwhen a variable defined underan
ifand via a named expression (walrus operator) is used later when guardedunder the same
iftest.Closes #10061
Fix :ref:
no-name-in-modulefor members ofconcurrent.futureswith Python 3.14.Closes #10632
False Negatives Fixed
Fix false negative for
used-before-assignmentwhen aTYPE_CHECKINGimport is used as a type annotation prior to erroneous usage.Refs #8893
Match cases are now counted as edges in the McCabe graph and will increase the complexity accordingly.
Refs #9667
Check module-level constants with type annotations for
invalid-name.Remember to adjust
const-naming-styleorconst-rgxto your liking.Closes #9770
Fix false negative where function-redefined (E0102) was not reported for functions with a leading underscore.
Closes #9894
We now raise a
logging-too-few-argsfor format string with nointerpolation arguments at all (i.e. for something like
logging.debug("Awaiting process %s")or
logging.debug("Awaiting process {pid}")). Previously we did not raise for such case.Closes #9999
Fix false negative for
used-before-assignmentwhen a function is defined inside aTYPE_CHECKINGguard block and used later.Closes #10028
Fix a false negative for
possibly-used-before-assignmentwhen a variable is conditionally definedand later assigned to a type-annotated variable.
Closes #10421
Fix false negative for
deprecated-modulewhen a__import__method is used instead ofimportsentence.Refs #10453
Count match cases for
too-many-branchescheck.Refs #10542
Fix false-negative where :ref:
unused-importwas not reported for names referenced in a precedingglobalstatement.Refs #10633
Other Bug Fixes
When displaying unicode with surrogates (or other potential
UnicodeEncodeError),pylint will now display a '?' character (using
encode(encoding="utf-8", errors="replace"))instead of crashing. The functional tests classes are also updated to handle this case.
Closes #8736
Fixed unidiomatic-typecheck only checking left-hand side.
Closes #10217
Fix a crash caused by malformed format strings when using
.formatwith keyword arguments.Closes #10282
Fix false positive
inconsistent-return-statementswhen usingquit()orexit()functions.Closes #10508
Fix a crash in :ref:
nested-min-maxwhen usingbuiltins.minorbuiltins.maxinstead of
minormaxdirectly.Closes #10626
Fixed a crash in :ref:
unnecessary-dict-index-lookupwhen the index of an enumerated listwas deleted inside a for loop.
Closes #10627
Other Changes
Remove support for launching pylint with Python 3.9.
Code that supports Python 3.9 can still be linted with the
--py-version=3.9setting.Refs #10405
Internal Changes
Modified test framework to allow for different test output for different Python versions.
Refs #10382
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