Unable to import 'distutils.util'

[crazyscientist]

There are quite a few related issues (e.g. #1691), but none mention this particular issue. Somehow distutils.util cannot be processed by pylint.

Steps to reproduce

1. Import something from distutils.util
2. Run pylint

Current behavior

Pylint produces two errors for the import statement:

# In the file
from distutils.util import strtobool

# In the output
************* Module [...].run_agents
[...]run_agents.py:33:0: E0611: No name 'util' in module 'distutils' (no-name-in-module)
[...]run_agents.py:33:0: E0401: Unable to import 'distutils.util' (import-error)

Expected behavior

None of the above error messages

pylint --version output

pylint 2.3.1
astroid 2.2.5
Python 3.6.7 (default, Oct 22 2018, 11:32:17) 
[GCC 8.2.0]

[crazyscientist]

Looks like this might be a duplicate of #73...

[Pierre-Sassoulas]

If it is, it has been fixed 21 days ago in pylint-dev/astroid#672 and might be available in the next release.

[crazyscientist]

OK, just checked out the master branch and ran pylint on the problematic file.

Looks like the reason for the errors is the same as for #73, but it was not fixed by said pull request :(

[chingc]

I'm having the same issue with import distutils.dir_util

[PCManticore]

Thanks for confirming it's not working for you, we'll check why is that.

[AWhetter]

I can't reproduce this.
I'm using virtualenv 16.1.0 with

pylint 2.4.0-dev0
astroid 2.3.0
Python 3.6.8 (default, May 21 2019, 02:17:32) 
[GCC 8.3.0]

I have no custom config set on pylint and I'm running it on a file containing

from distutils.util import strtobool

If you look at the fix in pylint-dev/astroid#672, is the condition that was added getting triggered? Are you able to find why not?

[crazyscientist]

If you look at the fix in pylint-dev/astroid#672, is the condition that was added getting triggered? Are you able to find why not?

Found it, actually using this unpublished version of astroid containing the fix helps :)