Merged in PCManticore/pylint/issue234 (pull request #112)

Fix a potential AttributeError when checking for constructor arguments. Closes issue #234.

2 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/checkers/typecheck.py b/checkers/typecheck.py
index 4cb406f..79774de 100644
--- a/checkers/typecheck.py
+++ b/checkers/typecheck.py
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ def _determine_callable(callable_obj):
         except astroid.NotFoundError:
             new = None
 
-        if not new or new.parent.name == 'object':
+        if not new or new.parent.scope().name == 'object':
             try:
                 # Use the last definition of __init__.
                 callable_obj = callable_obj.local_attr('__init__')[-1]
diff --git a/test/input/func_arguments.py b/test/input/func_arguments.py
index 1c27ef2..b607699 100644
--- a/test/input/func_arguments.py
+++ b/test/input/func_arguments.py
@@ -81,3 +81,20 @@ def method_tests():
     demo.decorated_method()
     DemoClass.decorated_method(demo)
 
+# Test a regression (issue #234)
+import sys
+
+# pylint: disable=too-few-public-methods
+class Text(object):
+    """ Regression """
+
+    if sys.version_info > (3,):
+        def __new__(cls):
+            """ empty """
+            return object.__new__(cls)
+    else:
+        def __new__(cls):
+            """ empty """
+            return object.__new__(cls)
+
+Text()