Unable to import 'collections.abc' using python 3.13.1

[Christian-B]

Bug description

import collections.abc

Configuration

Command used

We use a complex github actions but notice the change when python updated to 3.13.1
using pylint-3.3.2

Pylint output

************* Module spinn_utilities.checker
spinn_utilities/checker.py:1:0: C0304: Final newline missing (missing-final-newline)
spinn_utilities/checker.py:1:0: E0401: Unable to import 'collections.abc' (import-error)
spinn_utilities/checker.py:1:0: W0611: Unused import collections.abc (unused-import)

Expected behavior

Not seeing the Unable to import 'collections.abc' (import-error)

Other messages are due to the tiny example

likely due to
python/cpython@d46d291

Pylint version

Python 3.13.1

Did not happen with 
Python 3.13.0

OS / Environment

tested with github actions using
Ubuntu
22.04.5
LTS

Additional dependencies

[jacobtylerwalls]

Thanks, we'll jump on this 👍

[jacobtylerwalls]

Reopening to keep visibility until we bump astroid later today.

[jacobtylerwalls]

Polling other contributors, can anyone reproduce this locally? @zenlyj @mbyrnepr2

[mbyrnepr2]

LGTM @jacobtylerwalls

(venv3131) markbyrne@Marks-MacBook-Air-2 programming % python -m pylint --version
pylint 4.0.0-dev0
astroid 3.3.6
Python 3.13.1 (v3.13.1:06714517797, Dec  3 2024, 14:00:22) [Clang 15.0.0 (clang-1500.3.9.4)]
(venv3131) markbyrne@Marks-MacBook-Air-2 programming % cat x.py
import collections.abc
(venv3131) markbyrne@Marks-MacBook-Air-2 programming % python -V
Python 3.13.1
(venv3131) markbyrne@Marks-MacBook-Air-2 programming % python -m pylint x.py
************* Module x
x.py:1:0: C0114: Missing module docstring (missing-module-docstring)
x.py:1:0: W0611: Unused import collections.abc (unused-import)

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(venv3131) markbyrne@Marks-MacBook-Air-2 programming % 

[zenlyj]

reproducible on my end

import.py:1:0: E0401: Unable to import 'collections.abc' (import-error)
import.py:1:0: W0611: Unused import collections.abc (unused-import)

with the following:

pylint 4.0.0-dev0 (latest main)
astroid 3.3.5 & 3.3.6
Python 3.13.1

[jacobtylerwalls]

Thanks. By chance is anyone testing on linux locally? If it wasn't clear, I have doubts that astroid 3.3.6 fixed anything.

[Pierre-Sassoulas]

I have linux but didn't find an easy way to install 3.13.1 yet.

[zenlyj]

i got the error testing with astroid 3.3.6

environment is WSL2, Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS if it helps

[Torom]

Here you can see my failed GitHub action due to the error: https://github.com/Torom/BotLi/actions/runs/12241011421/job/34145142509

Python 3.13.1
astroid-3.3.6
dill-0.3.9
isort-5.13.2
mccabe-0.7.0
platformdirs-4.3.6
pylint-3.3.2
tomlkit-0.13.2

[jacobtylerwalls]

Thanks, our own actions are failing too, however I'm doubtful we can work on it until we have a contributor who can debug it locally.

[Torom]

I have linux but didn't find an easy way to install 3.13.1 yet.

With https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv it is very easy to install any Python version, including 3.13.1.

[Pierre-Sassoulas]

Thank you @Torom ! I managed to fix my issue with uv self update (then 3.13.1 is available)

[Pierre-Sassoulas]

All right, I can reproduce the collections.abc issue locally. On main:

pylint 4.0.0-dev0
astroid 3.3.5
Python 3.13.1 (main, Dec  6 2024, 18:40:43) [Clang 18.1.8 ]

Switching to dependabot/pip/astroid-3.3.6 I also reproduce with:

pylint 4.0.0-dev0
astroid 3.3.6
Python 3.13.1 (main, Dec  6 2024, 18:40:43) [Clang 18.1.8 ]

I'm wondering if the race condition fixed in the initial issue is bypassing our astroid brain mechanism, but this is just intuition. Let me know if there's any particular test/debug I could do Jacob, I'll be able to dig into this in ~= 20 hours.

[jacobtylerwalls]

Wonderful. I'd sniff around do_import_module(), maybe see if turning use_cache off helps? And also play with reverting the 3.3.6 change.

[DanielNoord]

Fix for astroid in pylint-dev/astroid#2657. Please review if you have the time.

If anybody who is running into this issue could try to test out the astroid version of that branch to confirm that it fixes the issues that would be awesome. At least on my machine it does reproduce and with that fix it doesn't.

[Christian-B]

We have enabled the github action which found this issue.
It used the latest version of all dependencies including astroid-3.3.8

Pylint works fine!