[Python-apps-team] Bug#563000: pylint: wrongly tries to open emacs locks

[Yann Dirson]

Package: pylint
Version: 0.18.1-1
Severity: normal

When a file is modified but not saved in emacs, some sort of
dangling-symlink lockfile is created:

 .#HexBoard.py -> username at hostname.domain.tld.9285:1262073654

This confuses pylint:

************* Module Omaha.Boards..#HexBoard
F0002:  1: <class 'logilab.astng._exceptions.ASTNGBuildingException'>: Unable to load module Omaha.Boards..#HexBoard (No module named #HexBoard)


I suppose it would be enough to just ignore dotfiles, I guess they
would make invalid python module names anyway.  Similarly, the #
character is most probaby forbidden here as well - all in all, pylint
should probably ignore such files as impossible to properly use from
python, and possibly issue a warning about their presence.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28.10-smp-smp-00002-g0fee61b (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=french (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages pylint depends on:
ii  python                        2.5.4-4    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-logilab-astng          0.19.1-1   extend Python's abstract syntax tr
ii  python-logilab-common         0.45.1-1   useful miscellaneous modules used 
ii  python-support                1.0.6      automated rebuilding support for P

Versions of packages pylint recommends:
ii  python-tk                     2.5.2-1.1  Tkinter - Writing Tk applications 

pylint suggests no packages.

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