Update dependency pylint to v2.17.7

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Adoption	Passing	Confidence
pylint (changelog)	==2.17.0 -> ==2.17.7

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Release Notes

pylint-dev/pylint (pylint)

v2.17.7

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2.17.7 is the last release before we only support pylint 3.0.0 or superior and python 3.8 or superior.

False Positives Fixed

• Fix a regression in pylint 2.17.6 / astroid 2.15.7 causing various
  messages for code involving TypeVar.

  Closes #​9069

Other Bug Fixes

• Fix crash in refactoring checker when unary operand used with variable in for
  loop.

  Closes #​9074

v2.17.6

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Other Bug Fixes

• When parsing comma-separated lists of regular expressions in the config,
  ignore commas that are inside braces since those indicate quantifiers, not
  delineation between expressions.

  Closes #​7229

• sys.argv is now always correctly considered as impossible to infer
  (instead of using the actual values given to pylint).

  Closes #​9047

• Don't show class fields more than once in Pyreverse diagrams.

  Closes #​8189

• Don't show arrows more than once in Pyreverse diagrams.

  Closes #​8522

• Don't show duplicate type annotations in Pyreverse diagrams.

  Closes #​8888

• Don't add Optional to | annotations with None in Pyreverse diagrams.

  Closes #​9014

v2.17.5

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What's new in Pylint 2.17.5?

Release date: 2023-07-26

False Positives Fixed

• Fix a false positive for unused-variable when there is an import in a
  if TYPE_CHECKING: block and allow-global-unused-variables is set to
  no in the configuration.

  Closes #​8696

• Fix false positives generated when supplying arguments as **kwargs to IO
  calls like open().

  Closes #​8719

• Fix a false positive where pylint was ignoring method calls annotated as
  NoReturn during the inconsistent-return-statements check.

  Closes #​8747

• Exempt parents with only type annotations from the invalid-enum-extension
  message.

  Closes #​8830

Other Bug Fixes

• Fixed crash when a call to super() was placed after an operator (e.g.
  not).

  Closes #​8554

• Fix crash for modified-while-iterating checker when deleting
  members of a dict returned from a call.

  Closes #​8598

• Fix crash in invalid-metaclass check when a metaclass had duplicate
  bases.

  Closes #​8698

• Avoid consider-using-f-string on modulos with brackets in template.

  Closes #​8720.

• Fix a crash when __all__ exists but cannot be inferred.

  Closes #​8740

• Fix crash when a variable is assigned to a class attribute of identical name.

  Closes #​8754

• Fixed a crash when calling copy.copy() without arguments.

  Closes #​8774

Other Changes

• Fix a crash when a nonlocal is defined at module-level.

  Closes #​8735

v2.17.4

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False Positives Fixed

• Fix a false positive for bad-dunder-name when there is a user-defined
  __index__ method.

  Closes #​8613

Other Bug Fixes

• pyreverse: added escaping of vertical bar character in annotation labels
  produced by DOT printer to ensure it is not treated as field separator of
  record-based nodes.

  Closes #​8603

• Fixed a crash when generating a configuration file:
  tomlkit.exceptions.TOMLKitError: Can't add a table to a dotted key
  caused by tomlkit v0.11.8.

  Closes #​8632

v2.17.3

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What's new in Pylint 2.17.3?

Release date: 2023-04-24

False Positives Fixed

• Fix unused-argument false positive when __new__ does not use all the
  arguments of __init__.

  Closes #​3670

• Fix unused-import false positive for usage of six.with_metaclass.

  Closes #​7506

• logging-not-lazy is not longer emitted for explicitly concatenated string
  arguments.

  Closes #​8410

• Fix false positive for isinstance-second-argument-not-valid-type when union
  types contains None.

  Closes #​8424

• Fixed unused-import so that it observes the dummy-variables-rgx option.

  Closes #​8500

• Union typed variables without assignment are no longer treated as
  TypeAlias.

  Closes #​8540

• Fix false positive for positional-only-arguments-expected when a function
  contains both a positional-only parameter that has a default value, and
  **kwargs.

  Closes #​8555

• Fix false positive for keyword-arg-before-vararg when a positional-only
  parameter with a default value precedes *args.

  Closes #​8570

Other Bug Fixes

• Improve output of consider-using-generator message for min()` calls with default`` keyword.

  Closes #​8563

v2.17.2

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False Positives Fixed

• invalid-name now allows for integers in typealias names:

  • now valid: Good2Name, GoodName2.
  • still invalid: _1BadName.

  Closes #​8485

• No longer consider Union as type annotation as type alias for naming
  checks.

  Closes #​8487

• unnecessary-lambda no longer warns on lambdas which use its parameters in
  their body (other than the final arguments), e.g.
  lambda foo: (bar if foo else baz)(foo).

  Closes #​8496

Other Bug Fixes

• Fix a crash in pyreverse when "/" characters are used in the output filename
  e.g pyreverse -o png -p name/ path/to/project.

  Closes #​8504

v2.17.1

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False Positives Fixed

• Adds asyncSetUp to the default defining-attr-methods list to silence
  attribute-defined-outside-init warning when using
  unittest.IsolatedAsyncioTestCase.

  Refs #​8403

Other Bug Fixes

• --clear-cache-post-run now also clears LRU caches for pylint utilities
  holding references to AST nodes.

  Closes #​8361

• Fix a crash when TYPE_CHECKING is used without importing it.

  Closes #​8434

• Fix a regression of preferred-modules where a partial match was used
  instead of the required full match.

  Closes #​8453

Internal Changes

• The following utilities are deprecated in favor of the more robust
  in_type_checking_block
  and will be removed in pylint 3.0:

  • is_node_in_guarded_import_block
  • is_node_in_typing_guarded_import_block
  • is_typing_guard

  is_sys_guard is still available, which was part of
  is_node_in_guarded_import_block.

  Refs #​8433

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