Spurious no-name-in-module with future.builtins.disabled on Python 3 with pylint 1.7.0+

[posita]

Test file:

"""
test_disabled_import.py
"""

from future.builtins.disabled import *  # pylint: disable=redefined-builtin,unused-wildcard-import,wildcard-import

Python 2 works as expected:

$ python -c 'from future.builtins.disabled import * ; import pprint ; pprint.pprint(dir())'
['StandardError',
 '__builtins__',
 '__doc__',
 '__name__',
 '__package__',
 'apply',
 'chr',
 'cmp',
 'coerce',
 'execfile',
 'file',
 'input',
 'long',
 'pprint',
 'raw_input',
 'reduce',
 'reload',
 'unicode',
 'xrange']
$ pylint --version
pylint 1.7.2,
astroid 1.5.3
Python 2.7.13 (v2.7.13:a06454b1afa1, Dec 17 2016, 12:39:47)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)]
$ pylint --rcfile=/dev/null test_disabled_import.py

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Python 3 gets confused:

$ python -c 'from future.builtins.disabled import * ; import pprint ; pprint.pprint(dir())'
['__annotations__',
 '__builtins__',
 '__doc__',
 '__loader__',
 '__name__',
 '__package__',
 '__spec__',
 'pprint']
$ pylint --version
pylint 1.7.2,
astroid 1.5.3
Python 3.6.0 (v3.6.0:41df79263a11, Dec 22 2016, 17:23:13)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)]
$ pylint --rcfile=/dev/null test_disabled_import.py
************* Module test_disabled_import
E:  5, 0: No name 'disabled' in module 'dict' (no-name-in-module)

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Possibly related to #1536?

[posita]

Note this is new to 1.7.0+:

$ pylint --version
pylint 1.7.0,
astroid 1.5.3
Python 3.6.0 (v3.6.0:41df79263a11, Dec 22 2016, 17:23:13)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)]
$ pylint --rcfile=/dev/null test_disabled_import.py
************* Module test_disabled_import
E:  5, 0: No name 'disabled' in module 'dict' (no-name-in-module)

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This does not happen with 1.6.5:

$ pylint --version
pylint 1.6.5,
astroid 1.4.9
Python 3.6.0 (v3.6.0:41df79263a11, Dec 22 2016, 17:23:13)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)]
$ pylint --reports=n --rcfile=/dev/null test_disabled_import.py
************* Module test_disabled_import
I:  5, 0: Locally disabling redefined-builtin (W0622) (locally-disabled)
I:  5, 0: Locally disabling unused-wildcard-import (W0614) (locally-disabled)
I:  5, 0: Locally disabling wildcard-import (W0401) (locally-disabled)

[posita]

Note, this also appears to happen with Python 3.5 (not just 3.6):

$ pylint --version
pylint 1.7.2,
astroid 1.5.3
Python 3.5.3 (v3.5.3:1880cb95a742, Jan 16 2017, 08:49:46)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)]
$ pylint --rcfile=/dev/null test_disabled_import.py
************* Module test_disabled_import
E:  5, 0: Unable to import 'future.builtins.disabled' (import-error)

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So this is probably not related to #1072. (See also this comment.)

[PCManticore]

I presume we'll need an astroid brain plugin to understand what future is doing that makes disabled accessible: https://github.com/PythonCharmers/python-future/blob/master/src/builtins/__init__.py.

[rawrgulmuffins]

Link to astroid brain plugin docs?

[PCManticore]

We don't have great docs for it, it's best to just poke the code in the brain directory to see how to write the plugins: https://github.com/PyCQA/astroid/tree/master/astroid/brain

[Pierre-Sassoulas]

Closing as it's lib specific and with python 2 being dead and buried it's unlikely that this will ever attract the necessary attention to get fixed.