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

[Alexandre Fayolle]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:51:06AM +0200, Duncan Gibson wrote:
> 
> 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?

First question that comes to my mind: can the call to findThing return
None? If not, then do not add a test just to please pylint. That's the
wrong approach. 

That said, which version of Pylint are you using ? 

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