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pylint
It's not just a linter that annoys you!

Python · 5725 stars
pylint-django
Pylint plugin for improving code analysis for when using Django

Python · 622 stars
astroid
A common base representation of python source code for pylint and other projects

Python · 583 stars
pylint-plugin-utils
Utilities and helpers for writing Pylint plugins

Python · 26 stars
pylint-qt
A Pylint plugin for improving Qt code analysis (PyQt5, PyQt6, PySide2, PySide6)

Python · 4 stars

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Missing brain for numpy.dtypes (e.g. StringDType) Open

Brain 🧠

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

pylint-dev/astroid#3289 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Can we make an option to reverse issue presentation bottom-to-top Open

Needs triage :inbox_tray:

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

pylint-dev/pylint#11427 · Opened Sep 15, 2026
PyO3 complex enums cause linting to hang Open

topic-performance

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

pylint-dev/astroid#3284 · Opened Sep 14, 2026
False positive no-member for annotated Enum _value_ Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

pylint-dev/pylint#11413 · Opened Sep 12, 2026
Wrong inference for generators Open

False Positive 🦟 Needs PR

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

pylint-dev/pylint#11412 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
Uncaught StatementMissing exception in class checker Open

Crash 💥 Needs PR

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

pylint-dev/pylint#11361 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 28, 2026
IndexError when inferring function arguments Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

pylint-dev/astroid#3259 · Opened Aug 28, 2026
`AttributeError: 'TypeVar' object has no attribute 'getattr'` with `__slots__` code Open

Crash 💥

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 75/100

pylint-dev/astroid#3258 · Opened Aug 27, 2026
`AttributeError: 'AssignAttr' object has no attribute 'name'` in namedtuple brain Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

pylint-dev/astroid#3257 · Opened Aug 27, 2026
Uncaught `InferenceError: Inference failed for all members of AssignAttr` in types checker Open

Crash 💥 Work in progress

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

pylint-dev/pylint#11356 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 27, 2026
False positive `reimported` related to import alias to avoid name clash Open

False Positive 🦟 Needs PR

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 70/100

pylint-dev/pylint#11353 · Opened Aug 27, 2026
register_module_extender leaks _pydatetime / _collections_abc into qname() for star-import brains Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

pylint-dev/astroid#3255 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 26, 2026
Unable to catch ordering issue of instance variables with proper Error code. Open

Enhancement ✨ False Negative 🦋 Needs PR

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

pylint-dev/pylint#11338 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 24, 2026
False positive `consider-using-enumerate` when using augmented assignment Open

Needs decision :lock:

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

pylint-dev/pylint#11304 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 19, 2026
Attribute assigned through an overridable factory class attribute infers to the base class (new no-member false positives in the pylint primer) Open

Bug 🪳

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

pylint-dev/astroid#3210 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 8, 2026
IndexError: Replacement index 0 out of range for positional args tuple Open

Crash 💥

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

pylint-dev/astroid#3199 · Opened Aug 4, 2026
Incorrect/Missing inference for slash-joining `pathlib` paths -> Missing diagnostics Open

False Negative 🦋 Needs PR

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

pylint-dev/pylint#11202 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 28, 2026
Static constructors: false positive for `no-member` Open

Bug :beetle: False Positive 🦟

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

pylint-dev/pylint#11119 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 26, 2026
Refactor-level rule for comprehensions that invoke a function call involving their datasource Open

Enhancement ✨ Needs PR

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

pylint-dev/pylint#11118 · Opened Jun 25, 2026
False positive used-before-assignment (E0601) for PEP 695 type-parameter bound forward-referencing a later-defined class Open

False Positive 🦟 Needs astroid update

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 66/100

pylint-dev/pylint#11115 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 24, 2026
Astroid crashes on PyPy 3.11: TypeError expected str, got getset_descriptor object Open

Crash 💥 Needs reproduction :mag:

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

pylint-dev/pylint#11092 · 5 comments · Opened Jun 8, 2026
Bug: identical `typing.cast` expressions yield different inferences depending on how they are reached Open

Bug 🪳 inference

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

pylint-dev/astroid#3077 · Opened May 21, 2026
C0103: Variable name false positive for single word all caps at module level Open

False Positive 🦟 Needs PR

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

pylint-dev/pylint#11012 · 2 comments · Opened May 12, 2026
Improve the performance of PyLinter._discover_files()'s use of the os.walk() method. Open

Needs PR performance

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pylint-dev/pylint#11005 · 1 reaction · Opened May 9, 2026
False positives when 'type' builtin is overwritten Open

Bug :beetle: False Positive 🦟 inference

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

pylint-dev/pylint#10994 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 28, 2026
Unexpected kwarg false-positive when using TypeVarTuple Open

Bug :beetle: dataclasses False Positive 🦟 Regression typing

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

pylint-dev/pylint#10991 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 27, 2026
warn of module level attributes that may get shadowed by importing submodules Open

Discussion 🤔 Enhancement ✨ Needs specification :closed_lock_with_key:

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

pylint-dev/pylint#10976 · 5 comments · Opened Apr 19, 2026
Abstract method false-positive when using TypeVarTuple Open

False Positive 🦟 Needs PR

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

pylint-dev/pylint#10972 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 17, 2026
False-positive E1101: Instance of '_PySideSignalTemplate' has no 'setValue' member (no-member) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

pylint-dev/pylint-qt#3 · Opened Apr 13, 2026
Plugin triggers False positive unsupported-assignment-operation Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

pylint-dev/pylint-qt#2 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 9, 2026
Disable `W0603` in the body of module-level `__getattr__` by default Open

Discussion 🤔 Proposal 📨

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

pylint-dev/pylint#10959 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 9, 2026
Let's stay away from recommending `re.prefixmatch`. Open

Discussion 🤔 Needs decision :lock:

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

pylint-dev/pylint#10958 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 7, 2026
pylint does not recognise `from ... import` inside an `IntEnum` class body as producing enum members. It infers the members as `int` instead of `LogLevel`, causing a spurious `E1101: Instance of 'int' has no 'value' member (no-member)` error. Open

Astroid enum False Positive 🦟

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

pylint-dev/pylint#10951 · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 2, 2026
E1136 false positive on PySide6 overloaded signal subscript Open

False Positive 🦟 Lib specific 💅 Needs PR

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

pylint-dev/pylint#10916 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 16, 2026
"Cannot import 'libtorrent' due to 'invalid or missing encoding declaration" false positive Open

Question

pylint-dev/pylint#10849 · 6 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 15, 2026
pylint does not honor decorator return type when using @ syntax Open

Decorators Duplicate 🐫

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

pylint-dev/pylint#10848 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 11, 2026
possibly-used-before-assignment false negative when variable has type annotation Open

False Negative 🦋

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

pylint-dev/pylint#10847 · Opened Feb 11, 2026
test_functional.py --update-functional-output deletes files for other Python versions Open

tests

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

pylint-dev/pylint#10844 · Opened Feb 9, 2026
Crash: I think a foreign key I added to a temporary test model caused this crash? Open

bug

pylint-dev/pylint-django#480 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 8, 2026
`invalid-envvar-value` does not support StrEnum Open

Needs decision :lock:

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

pylint-dev/pylint#10840 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 5, 2026
False positive unexpected-keyword-arg with scipy.stats 1.17 Open

False Positive 🦟 Lib specific 💅 Needs PR

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

pylint-dev/pylint#10831 · Opened Jan 26, 2026
False positive unused-import and unused-wildcard-import Open

Bug :beetle: False Positive 🦟 Import system

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

pylint-dev/pylint#10827 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 26, 2026
Please publish 2.7.0 source distribution to PyPI Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

pylint-dev/pylint-django#479 · Opened Jan 17, 2026
Improper handling of log message format bytestrings Open

Crash 💥

pylint-dev/pylint#10813 · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 16, 2026
pre-commit pylint hook is a system hook Open

Discussion 🤔

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

pylint-dev/astroid#2931 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 10, 2026
False positive for numpy 2.4.0+ Open

False Positive 🦟 Lib specific 💅

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

pylint-dev/pylint#10806 · 3 reactions · Opened Jan 8, 2026
False Positive "no-member" with pandas `DatetimeIndex` Open

False Positive 🦟 Lib specific 💅 Needs investigation 🔬

pylint-dev/pylint#10796 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 1, 2026
Issues with pylint 4 and pylint-django 2.7.0 Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pylint-dev/pylint-django#477 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 1, 2026
Add check for redundant exception message when using 'raise ... from' (W0720) Open

Enhancement ✨ Needs decision :lock:

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

pylint-dev/pylint#10792 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 29, 2025
Type narrowing fails due to unrelated instance assignment Open

Bug :beetle: Control flow False Positive 🦟 inference

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

pylint-dev/pylint#10784 · Opened Dec 17, 2025

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