[unused-private-member] Remove a check that is done later anyway

See https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/pull/4642\#discussion_r661805293

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/pylint/checkers/classes.py b/pylint/checkers/classes.py
index a85e216c5..4c9228d2d 100644
--- a/pylint/checkers/classes.py
+++ b/pylint/checkers/classes.py
@@ -909,14 +909,10 @@ a metaclass class method.",
                 continue
             for attribute in node.nodes_of_class(astroid.Attribute):
                 attribute = cast(astroid.Attribute, attribute)
-                if attribute.expr is None:
-                    # attribute.expr is an Optional[NodeNG] it can be None
-                    continue
                 if (
                     attribute.attrname != function_def.name
-                    or attribute.scope() == function_def
+                    or attribute.scope() == function_def  # We ignore recursive calls
                 ):
-                    # We ignore recursive calls
                     continue
                 if isinstance(attribute.expr, astroid.Name) and attribute.expr.name in (
                     "self",