pylint can't find QWidget and QApplication

python pyqt pyqt5 pylint
Sergey picture Sergey · Sep 21, 2017 · Viewed 19k times · Source 
import sys
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import (QApplication, QWidget)
app = QApplication(sys.argv)
window = QWidget()
window.setGeometry(50, 50, 500, 300)
window.setWindowTitle('Hello, world')
window.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())

I just started to learn pyqt5. I wrote this hello world app, which works. But pylint gives "E0611:No name 'QWidget' in module 'PyQt5.QtWidgets'" and same for QApplication. Is it some kind of bug in pylint?

pylint --version
No config file found, using default configuration
pylint 1.7.2, 
astroid 1.5.3
Python 3.5.2 (default, Aug 18 2017, 17:48:00) 
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609]

Answer

slavugan picture slavugan · Nov 22, 2017

(Ubuntu) I've created a ~/.pylintrc file and added there

[MASTER]
extension-pkg-whitelist=PyQt5

It is more convenient. And now pylint applies this configuration even in my Visual Studio Code editor.

Or in VSCode settings:

"python.linting.pylintArgs": [
    "--extension-pkg-whitelist=PyQt5"
],

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