pylint-dev/pylint v2.11.0

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The python3 porting mode checker and it's py3k option were removed. You can still find it in older pylint
versions.

raising-bad-type is now properly emitted when raising a string

Added new extension SetMembershipChecker with use-set-for-membership check:
Emitted when using an in-place defined list or tuple to do a membership test. sets are better optimized for that.

Closes #4776

Added py-version config key (if [MASTER] section). Used for version dependant checks.
Will default to whatever Python version pylint is executed with.

CodeStyleChecker

• Added consider-using-assignment-expr: Emitted when an assignment is directly followed by an if statement
  and both can be combined by using an assignment expression :=. Requires Python 3.8

  Closes #4862

Added consider-using-f-string: Emitted when .format() or '%' is being used to format a string.

Closes #3592

Fix false positive for consider-using-with if a context manager is assigned to a
variable in different paths of control flow (e. g. if-else clause).

Closes #4751

https is now prefered in the documentation and http://pylint.pycqa.org correctly redirect to https://pylint.pycqa.org

Closes #3802

Fix false positive for function-redefined for simple type annotations

Closes #4936

Fix false positive for protected-access if a protected member is used in type hints of function definitions

Fix false positive dict-iter-missing-items for dictionaries only using tuples as keys

Closes #3282

The unspecified-encoding checker now also checks calls to pathlib.Path().read_text()
and pathlib.Path().write_text()

Closes #4945

Fix false positive superfluous-parens for tuples created with inner tuples

Closes #4907

Fix false positive unused-private-member for accessing attributes in a class using cls

Closes #4849

Fix false positive unused-private-member for private staticmethods accessed in classmethods.

Closes #4849

Extended consider-using-in check to work for attribute access.

Setting min-similarity-lines to 0 now makes the similarty checker stop checking for duplicate code

Closes #4901

Fix a bug where pylint complained if the cache's parent directory does not exist

Closes #4900

The global-variable-not-assigned checker now catches global variables that are never reassigned in a
local scope and catches (reassigned) functions

Closes #1375
Closes #330

Fix false positives for invalid-all-format that are lists or tuples at runtime

Closes #4711

Fix no-self-use and docparams extension for async functions and methods.

Add documentation for pyreverse and symilar

Closes #4616

Non symbolic messages with the wrong capitalisation now correctly trigger use-symbolic-message-instead

Closes #5000

The consider-iterating-dictionary checker now also considers membership checks

Closes #4069

The invalid-name message is now more detailed when using multiple naming style regexes.