Summary -- Release highlights

  • This release improves the performance of the 2.X series after it was affected by a performance regression a couple of releases ago.

New checkers

  • We added a new check message wrong-exception-operation. This is emitted when an operation is done against an exception, but the operation is not valid for the exception in question. Usually emitted when having binary operations between exceptions in except handlers.

    Closes #2494

  • We added a new no-else-raise warning similar to no-else-return

    Closes #2558

  • We added a new option check-str-concat-over-line-jumps to check implicit-str-concat-in-sequence over multiple lines.

Other Changes

Quite a lot of bug fixes and improvements went into this release, here's a handful of them. For the full changes, check the full changelog.

  • We no longer emit *-not-iterating checks for builtins consumed by itertools

  • We fixed some false positives for no-self-argument and unsubscriptable-object when using __class_getitem__ (new in Python 3.7)

  • pylint now supports Ellipsis as a synonym for pass statements.

  • fixme gets triggered only on comments.

  • pylint exempts starred unpacking from *-not-iterating Python 3 checks.

  • compare-to-zero is now less zealous by checking against equality and identity.

``yield from`` is exempted from ``-not-iterating`` Python 3 checks.

  • A false positive with not-async-context-manager caused by not understanding contextlib.asynccontextmanager was fixed.

  • We refactored bad-reversed-sequence to account for more objects that can define __reversed__.

  • no-member is now emitted for enums when they lack a member.

  • Plugins can now use the load_configuration() hook. This hook is executed after configuration is loaded to prevent overwriting plugin specific configuration via user-based configuration.

  • There's a new command line option list-groups for listing all the check groups pylint knows about. This is useful to know what groups you can disable or enable individually.