Stephen Satchell writes:

I have a python2.7 project, and when I run PyLint 1.5.2, astroid 1.3.3

I have:: $ pylint --version No config file found, using default configuration pylint 1.6.5, astroid 1.4.9 Python 2.7.13 (default, Jan 19 2017, 14:48:08) [GCC 6.3.0 20170118]

When I have: import logging import pexpct import re import time

I get messages about wrong import order, specifically that re and time comes after pexpect.

You've got a different name than ‘pexpect’, there. I wonder whether you actually tried that code? When I correct the name to ‘pexpect’, I get:: $ cat foo.py import logging import pexpect import re import time $ pylint foo.py No config file found, using default configuration ************* Module foo C: 1, 0: Black listed name "foo" (blacklisted-name) C: 1, 0: Missing module docstring (missing-docstring) W: 1, 0: Unused import logging (unused-import) W: 2, 0: Unused import pexpect (unused-import) W: 3, 0: Unused import re (unused-import) W: 4, 0: Unused import time (unused-import) C: 3, 0: standard import "import re" comes before "import pexpect" (wrong-import-order) C: 4, 0: standard import "import time" comes before "import pexpect" (wrong-import-order)

OK, apply the obvious fix: import logging import re import time

import pexect

and now the diagnostics I get are "standard import "re" comes before "pexpect". ditto "time".

Again, a different name from ‘pexpect’. Did you actually try that code? When I correct the name to ‘pexpect’, I get:: $ cat bar.py import logging import re import time import pexpect $ pylint bar.py No config file found, using default configuration ************* Module bar C: 1, 0: Black listed name "bar" (blacklisted-name) C: 1, 0: Missing module docstring (missing-docstring) W: 1, 0: Unused import logging (unused-import) W: 2, 0: Unused import re (unused-import) W: 3, 0: Unused import time (unused-import) W: 5, 0: Unused import pexpect (unused-import)

So how do I fix this, other than abandoning programming and take up advanced backet-weaving as a profession? :)

I suspect the problem is related to something you're not showing us, because the code you showed does not produce the problem you described. Please make an extremely minimal example – like the ones you've shown here – that you actually run and demonstrate the problem behaviour. -- \ “If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all | `\ others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking | _o__) power called an idea” —Thomas Jefferson, 1813-08-13 | Ben Finney