``too-few-public-methods`` is not reported for ``typing.NamedTuple``

Close #2459

3 files changed, 26 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 0e558d541..34dbb2016 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ What's New in Pylint 2.2?
 
 Release date: TBA
 
+   * ``too-few-public-methods`` is not reported for ``typing.NamedTuple``
+
+     Close #2459
+
    * ```too-few-public-methods`` is not reported for dataclasses created with options.
 
      Close #2488
@@ -83,7 +87,7 @@ Release date: TBA
 
    * `unnecessary-pass` is now also emitted when a function or class contains only docstring and pass statement.
 
-      In Python, stubbed functions often have a body that contains just a single `pass` statement, 
+      In Python, stubbed functions often have a body that contains just a single `pass` statement,
       indicating that the function doesn't do anything. However, a stubbed function can also have just a
       docstring, and function with a docstring and no body also does nothing.
 
@@ -100,7 +104,7 @@ Release date: TBA
    * Consider tuples in exception handler for ``try-except-raise``.
      Close #2389
 
-   * Fix astroid.ClassDef check in checkers.utils.is_subclass_of 
+   * Fix astroid.ClassDef check in checkers.utils.is_subclass_of
 
    * Fix wildcard imports being ignored by the import checker
 
diff --git a/pylint/checkers/design_analysis.py b/pylint/checkers/design_analysis.py
index a762e269d..0c1a21cb9 100644
--- a/pylint/checkers/design_analysis.py
+++ b/pylint/checkers/design_analysis.py
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ from astroid import decorators
 
 from pylint.interfaces import IAstroidChecker
 from pylint.checkers import BaseChecker
-from pylint.checkers import utils as checker_utils
 from pylint.checkers.utils import check_messages
 from pylint import utils
 
@@ -93,6 +92,15 @@ MSGS = {
 SPECIAL_OBJ = re.compile("^_{2}[a-z]+_{2}$")
 DATACLASS_DECORATOR = "dataclass"
 DATACLASS_IMPORT = "dataclasses"
+TYPING_NAMEDTUPLE = "typing.NamedTuple"
+
+
+def _is_typing_namedtuple(node: astroid.ClassDef) -> bool:
+    """Check if a class node is a typing.NamedTuple class"""
+    for base in node.ancestors():
+        if base.qname() == TYPING_NAMEDTUPLE:
+            return True
+    return False
 
 
 def _is_enum_class(node: astroid.ClassDef) -> bool:
@@ -351,7 +359,12 @@ class MisdesignChecker(BaseChecker):
 
         # Stop here for exception, metaclass, interface classes and other
         # classes for which we don't need to count the methods.
-        if node.type != "class" or _is_enum_class(node) or _is_dataclass(node):
+        if (
+            node.type != "class"
+            or _is_enum_class(node)
+            or _is_dataclass(node)
+            or _is_typing_namedtuple(node)
+        ):
             return
 
         # Does the class contain more than n public methods ?
diff --git a/pylint/test/functional/too_few_public_methods_37.py b/pylint/test/functional/too_few_public_methods_37.py
index 56b275f73..0bb3a3c16 100644
--- a/pylint/test/functional/too_few_public_methods_37.py
+++ b/pylint/test/functional/too_few_public_methods_37.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # pylint: disable=missing-docstring
+import typing
 import dataclasses
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 
@@ -17,3 +18,7 @@ class ScheduledTxSearchModelOne:
 @dataclass(frozen=True)
 class Test:
     some_integer: int
+
+
+class Example(typing.NamedTuple):
+    some_int: int