Fix incorrect preferred-modules matches (#8481)

Co-authored-by: d33bs <dave.bunten@cuanschutz.edu>
(cherry picked from commit d64c0cc1484b0cbea5fd3a9dfac4c0d6ddc7d1aa)

Co-authored-by: Daniël van Noord <13665637+DanielNoord@users.noreply.github.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/pylint/checkers/imports.py b/pylint/checkers/imports.py
index dee12e591..1ed70d958 100644
--- a/pylint/checkers/imports.py
+++ b/pylint/checkers/imports.py
@@ -922,7 +922,15 @@ class ImportsChecker(DeprecatedMixin, BaseChecker):
             mod_compare = [f"{node.modname}.{name[0]}" for name in node.names]
 
         # find whether there are matches with the import vs preferred_modules keys
-        matches = [k for k in self.preferred_modules for mod in mod_compare if k in mod]
+        matches = [
+            k
+            for k in self.preferred_modules
+            for mod in mod_compare
+            # exact match
+            if k == mod
+            # checks for base module matches
+            or k in mod.split(".")[0]
+        ]
 
         # if we have matches, add message
         if matches: