[Python-projects] pylint: E1101: Instance of 'None' has no 'xyz' member

[Alexandre Fayolle]

----- Forwarded message from Duncan Gibson <duncan at thermal.esa.int> -----

From: Duncan Gibson <duncan at thermal.esa.int>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:56:55 +0200
Subject: pylint: E1101: Instance of 'None' has no 'xyz' member


There are various places in my code where I have something like:

    thing = findThing()
    if thing is not None:
        thing.doIt()

but pylint reports E1101: Instance of 'None' has no 'doIt' member.

Apart from adding # pylint: disable-msg=E1101 comments everywhere
in the code, is there some way of restructuring the code to avoid
the [unnecessary?] warning?

If not, would it be possible to enhance pylint to recognise that
the access to thing.doIt is protected by a test that thing exists?

Cheers
Duncan

PS. Cc'd to Alexandre in case sending to python-projects list fails


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