[Python-apps-team] Bug#735327: pylint: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'seek'

[Jakub Wilk]

Package: pylint
Version: 1.1.0-1
Severity: normal

pylint fails with an exception if you have your own module named 
"exceptions":

$ echo 'import exceptions' > eggs.py
$ echo > exceptions.py
$ pylint eggs.py exceptions.py
************* Module eggs
W:  1, 0: Unused import exceptions (unused-import)
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/bin/pylint", line 3, in <module>
     run_pylint()
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pylint/__init__.py", line 21, in run_pylint
     Run(sys.argv[1:])
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pylint/lint.py", line 1040, in __init__
     linter.check(args)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pylint/lint.py", line 626, in check
     self.check_astroid_module(astroid, walker, rawcheckers, tokencheckers)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pylint/lint.py", line 686, in check_astroid_module
     tokens = tokenize_module(astroid)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pylint/utils.py", line 104, in tokenize_module
     stream.seek(0)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'seek'



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
   APT prefers unstable
   APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: amd64

Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages pylint depends on:
ii  python                 2.7.5-5
ii  python-astroid         1.0.1-1
ii  python-logilab-common  0.60.1-1

-- 
Jakub Wilk