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| author | Claudiu Popa <pcmanticore@gmail.com> | 2018-08-22 09:33:44 +0200 |
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| committer | Claudiu Popa <pcmanticore@gmail.com> | 2018-08-22 09:33:44 +0200 |
| commit | 0ba451994767172053251c4cebcc9104d4b77fc6 (patch) | |
| tree | 77e33f18d8590edea24614c563b667ddf9265e80 /doc/whatsnew/2.2.rst | |
| parent | cbc70dc2d86343ba4fba94a6e082abd8bbc9c2c4 (diff) | |
| download | pylint-git-0ba451994767172053251c4cebcc9104d4b77fc6.tar.gz | |
Pick the latest value from the inferred values when looking for ``raising-non-exception``
Close #2431
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diff --git a/doc/whatsnew/2.2.rst b/doc/whatsnew/2.2.rst index 4d9305758..f8c1bd64e 100644 --- a/doc/whatsnew/2.2.rst +++ b/doc/whatsnew/2.2.rst @@ -24,3 +24,10 @@ Other Changes * Fix false positive ``undefined-variable`` and ``used-before-assignment`` with nonlocal keyword usage. * Fix exceptions being raised when one of the params is not a ClassDef for :func:`checkers.utils.is_subclass_of`. + +* ``pylint`` now picks the latest value from the inferred values of the exception that gets + raised, when looking for ``raising-non-exception``. This helps when reusing a variable name + for multiple types, since ``pylint`` was picking just the first inferred value, leading + to spurious false positives. + + Close #2431
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