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View All on GitHubAI Summary: Pylint currently issues a `possibly-used-before-assignment` warning (`E0606`) when a variable is assigned in one branch of an `if/else` statement, and the other branch calls `self.fail()` from `unittest.TestCase`. This is a false positive because `self.fail()` terminates execution, preventing the unassigned path from being reached. The desired solution is for Pylint to recognize `self.fail()` as a terminating call, similar to how it handles `raise` statements, to correctly analyze control flow.
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Enhancement ✨ Control flow Good first issue C: used-before-assignment
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Performance issue R1730 consider-using-min-builtin, R1731 consider-using-max-builtin about 2 months ago
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Minor error in changelog for Pylint 3.0 about 2 months ago
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--fail-under has no visual impact on terminal output about 2 months ago
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Setting attribute of typing.NamedTuple is not detected about 2 months ago
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