False Positive import-error for tensorflow

[petrux]

Steps to reproduce

• create a virtual env with python3.5
• run it
• install the latest TensorFlow and pylint via pip
• create a file bug.py write the following code:

    import tensorflow.estimator

    if __name__ == '__main__':
        print(dir(tensorflow.estimator))

• run pylint bug.py

Current behavior

The linter raises an error Unable to import 'tensorflow.estimator, but running the script everything works fine.

Expected behavior

No error should have been raised.

pylint --version output

pylint 2.1.1
astroid 2.0.4
Python 3.5.3 (default, Jan 19 2017, 14:11:04) 
[GCC 6.3.0 20170118]

[PCManticore]

Can you try with --extension-pkg-whitelist=tensorflow.estimator,tensorflow?

[petrux]

@PCManticore I tried but nothing changed.

[AndyHuang0000]

I have the same problem too, placing some .py file under the same directory,
importing them from other .py file,
pylint keep showing "Unable to import" E0401

I am using VSCode, where clicking into the module works well.
Another user reported this problem earlier
microsoft/vscode-python#1185

[Zhiqiang-Ye]

--extension-pkg-whitelist=tensorflow also failed with some false positive E1101 of protobuf

[datakristy]

@AndyHuang0000 I had the same problem, did you ever find a fix?

[elephantum]

I get the same behaviour with tensorflow version 1.12.

Pylint works fine with tensorflow 1.11 though.

[danchyy]

I updated to Tensorflow 1.13.0rc2 and this issue started occurring.

Python version: 3.7.1

Pylint version: 2.2.2

There were no issues at Tensorflow version 1.12.0. and Python version 3.6.5

I tried to whitelist tensorflow.estimator and tensorflow but no help.

EDIT:

Found the workaround by adding the following line to pylintrc:

generated-members=tensorflow.estimator.*,tf.estimator.*

[rkeithlynn]

Same issue with the following versions using vscode 1.31.1 w/virtualenv
python 3.7.2
pylint 2.3.0
astroid 2.2.0
tensorflow 1.31.1

When I installed tensorflow globally (not just inside the virtualenv) it resolved the issue
ie. c:\pip install tensorflow

[PCManticore]

Thanks for the examples folks. It might be that tensorflow does something funky with those attributes, in which case we'll need special support in our inference engine library, astroid, to figure that out. In the meantime, the solution proposed by @danchyy here seems alright to me.