pylint 2.17.1

on Python PyPI

False Positives Fixed

• Adds asyncSetUp to the default defining-attr-methods list to silence
  attribute-defined-outside-init warning when using
  unittest.IsolatedAsyncioTestCase.

  Refs #8403

Other Bug Fixes

• --clear-cache-post-run now also clears LRU caches for pylint utilities
  holding references to AST nodes.

  Closes #8361

• Fix a crash when TYPE_CHECKING is used without importing it.

  Closes #8434

• Fix a regression of preferred-modules where a partial match was used
  instead of the required full match.

  Closes #8453

Internal Changes

• The following utilities are deprecated in favor of the more robust
  in_type_checking_block
  and will be removed in pylint 3.0:

  • is_node_in_guarded_import_block
  • is_node_in_typing_guarded_import_block
  • is_typing_guard

  is_sys_guard is still available, which was part of
  is_node_in_guarded_import_block.

  Refs #8433