Description
Steps to reproduce
This only happens on systems where both Gtk 3 and Gtk 4 are available.
import gi
gi.require_version('Gtk', '3.0')
from gi.repository import Gtk
cell = Gtk.CellRendererText()
#cell.props.xalign = 1.0
Gtk.Builder().connect_signals({})When you run pylint on this code, it works as expected; however, when you uncomment the cell.props.xalign line, it breaks with
test.py:8:0: E1101: Instance of 'Builder' has no 'connect_signals' member (no-member)
(connect_signals is only available in Gtk3, not in Gtk4)
Current behavior
test.py:8:0: E1101: Instance of 'Builder' has no 'connect_signals' member (no-member)
Expected behavior
E1101 is not there (as Builder does have connect_signals member in Gtk 3.0).
More info
I did a little bit more digging and found out that in the second (failing) case, following exception is raised in _register_require_version:
Namespace Gtk is already loaded with version 4.0
Debug prints in each function in brain_gi.py further showed that in the first case, require_version is handled first as expected. In the second case, _register_require_version is called after everything else has been processed, which is wrong (newer Gtk was already loaded at this point).
I found this in astroid 2.12.5 and pylint 2.15.2 with Python 3.7 and 3.11, but I also tried the latest and greatest (astroid 2.15.5 & pylint 2.17.4), and the same issue is still reproducible.
This issue was initially reported here:
pylint-dev/pylint#6352