Don't emit super-on-old-class on classes with unknown bases.

The change also removes the confidence handling for super-on-old-class,
which isn't used enough to merit its existence.
Closes issue #721.

4 files changed, 23 insertions, 23 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d2bbdee60..7c2ea9343 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ ChangeLog for Pylint
       This prevents a crash which can occur when an object doesn't have
       .qname() method after the inference.
 
+    * Don't emit super-on-old-class on classes with unknown bases.
+      Closes issue #721.
+
 
 2015-12-02 -- 1.5.1
 
diff --git a/pylint/checkers/newstyle.py b/pylint/checkers/newstyle.py
index 489c22fe9..5cc8f13c3 100644
--- a/pylint/checkers/newstyle.py
+++ b/pylint/checkers/newstyle.py
@@ -128,12 +128,10 @@ class NewStyleConflictChecker(BaseChecker):
                     isinstance(call.func, astroid.Name) and
                     call.func.name == 'super'):
                 continue
-            confidence = (INFERENCE if has_known_bases(klass)
-                          else INFERENCE_FAILURE)
-            if not klass.newstyle:
+
+            if not klass.newstyle and has_known_bases(klass):                
                 # super should not be used on an old style class
-                self.add_message('super-on-old-class', node=node,
-                                 confidence=confidence)
+                self.add_message('super-on-old-class', node=node)
             else:
                 # super first arg should be the class
                 if not call.args and sys.version_info[0] == 3:
@@ -147,8 +145,7 @@ class NewStyleConflictChecker(BaseChecker):
                     continue
 
                 if supcls is None:
-                    self.add_message('missing-super-argument', node=call,
-                                     confidence=confidence)
+                    self.add_message('missing-super-argument', node=call)
                     continue
 
                 if klass is not supcls:
@@ -162,8 +159,7 @@ class NewStyleConflictChecker(BaseChecker):
                         if hasattr(call.args[0], 'name'):
                             name = call.args[0].name
                     if name is not None:
-                        self.add_message('bad-super-call', node=call, args=(name, ),
-                                         confidence=confidence)
+                        self.add_message('bad-super-call', node=call, args=(name, ))
 
 
 def register(linter):
diff --git a/pylint/test/functional/super_checks.py b/pylint/test/functional/super_checks.py
index 14fd5a2d9..f4aec0acd 100644
--- a/pylint/test/functional/super_checks.py
+++ b/pylint/test/functional/super_checks.py
@@ -65,9 +65,9 @@ class SuperDifferentScope(object):
 class UnknownBases(Missing):
     """Don't emit if we don't know all the bases."""
     def __init__(self):
-        # pylint: disable=super-on-old-class
         super(UnknownBases, self).__init__()
         super(UnknownBases, self).test()
+        super(Missing, self).test() # [bad-super-call]
 
 
 # Test that we are detecting proper super errors.
diff --git a/pylint/test/functional/super_checks.txt b/pylint/test/functional/super_checks.txt
index a98a25b2d..ea1d67be7 100644
--- a/pylint/test/functional/super_checks.txt
+++ b/pylint/test/functional/super_checks.txt
@@ -1,18 +1,19 @@
 old-style-class:6:Aaaa:Old-style class defined.
-super-on-old-class:8:Aaaa.hop:Use of super on an old style class:INFERENCE
+super-on-old-class:8:Aaaa.hop:Use of super on an old style class
 no-member:10:Aaaa.hop:Super of 'Aaaa' has no 'hop' member:INFERENCE
-super-on-old-class:12:Aaaa.__init__:Use of super on an old style class:INFERENCE
+super-on-old-class:12:Aaaa.__init__:Use of super on an old style class
 no-member:19:NewAaaa.hop:Super of 'NewAaaa' has no 'hop' member:INFERENCE
-bad-super-call:22:NewAaaa.__init__:Bad first argument 'Aaaa' given to super():INFERENCE
-missing-super-argument:27:Py3kAaaa.__init__:Missing argument to super():INFERENCE
-bad-super-call:32:Py3kWrongSuper.__init__:Bad first argument 'NewAaaa' given to super():INFERENCE
-bad-super-call:37:WrongNameRegression.__init__:Bad first argument 'Missing' given to super():INFERENCE
-bad-super-call:46:CrashSuper.__init__:Bad first argument 'NewAaaa' given to super():INFERENCE
-bad-super-call:62:SuperDifferentScope.test:Bad first argument 'object' given to super():INFERENCE
-not-callable:89:InvalidSuperChecks.__init__:super(InvalidSuperChecks, self).not_a_method is not callable:HIGH
+bad-super-call:22:NewAaaa.__init__:Bad first argument 'Aaaa' given to super()
+missing-super-argument:27:Py3kAaaa.__init__:Missing argument to super()
+bad-super-call:32:Py3kWrongSuper.__init__:Bad first argument 'NewAaaa' given to super()
+bad-super-call:37:WrongNameRegression.__init__:Bad first argument 'Missing' given to super()
+bad-super-call:46:CrashSuper.__init__:Bad first argument 'NewAaaa' given to super()
+bad-super-call:62:SuperDifferentScope.test:Bad first argument 'object' given to super()
+bad-super-call:70:UnknownBases.__init__:Bad first argument 'Missing' given to super()
+not-callable:89:InvalidSuperChecks.__init__:super(InvalidSuperChecks, self).not_a_method is not callable
 no-member:90:InvalidSuperChecks.__init__:Super of 'InvalidSuperChecks' has no 'attribute_error' member:INFERENCE
-no-value-for-parameter:92:InvalidSuperChecks.__init__:No value for argument 'param' in method call:HIGH
-too-many-function-args:93:InvalidSuperChecks.__init__:Too many positional arguments for method call:HIGH
-no-value-for-parameter:95:InvalidSuperChecks.__init__:No value for argument 'param' in method call:HIGH
-unexpected-keyword-arg:95:InvalidSuperChecks.__init__:Unexpected keyword argument 'lala' in method call:HIGH
+no-value-for-parameter:92:InvalidSuperChecks.__init__:No value for argument 'param' in method call
+too-many-function-args:93:InvalidSuperChecks.__init__:Too many positional arguments for method call
+no-value-for-parameter:95:InvalidSuperChecks.__init__:No value for argument 'param' in method call
+unexpected-keyword-arg:95:InvalidSuperChecks.__init__:Unexpected keyword argument 'lala' in method call
 no-member:98:InvalidSuperChecks.__init__:Super of 'InvalidSuperChecks' has no 'attribute_error' member:INFERENCE
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