Unexepected "No name 'absltest' ..." lint error from pylint

[greed42]

When linting an absltest-based test suite with pylint, I am now getting the following message:

************* Module lint_bug
lint_bug.py:8:0: E0611: No name 'absltest' in module 'absl.testing' (no-name-in-module)

This has only started as of absl-py==0.9.0, and requires the type declaration for TestCase.enter_context, # type: (ContextManager[_T]) -> _T, be present in absltest.py.

It looks a bit like this is actually a fault with pylint, but have not been able to create a standalone reproduction case at this point. The code -- both the reduced fragment below and my original test suite -- run correctly. (And pytest is happy with them as well.)

The source for lint_bug.py is:

"""Show an unexpected pylint error with absltest.

There is an unexpected no-name-in-module with absl-py==0.9.0.

pip3 install pylint==2.4.4 absl-py==0.9.0
python3 -m pylint lint_bug.py
"""
from absl.testing import absltest

if __name__ == '__main__':
    absltest.main()

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