Re: pylint-3: AttributeError: module '_ast' has no attribute 'Str'

[Daniel Dickman]

On Mon, 28 Dec 2020, Klemens Nanni wrote:

> Tried to use pylint for the first time, this does not look right:
> 
>       $ pylint-3 -h
>       Traceback (most recent call last):
>         File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/astroid/astpeephole.py", 
> line 29, in <module>
>           _TYPES = (_ast.Str, _ast.Bytes)
>       AttributeError: module '_ast' has no attribute 'Str'
> 
> Can anyone reproduce this on amd64 snapshots?
> 
> 

Yeah, devel/py-astroid is not python 3.8 compatible from what I remember.

To fix pylint, you'll need to get py-astroid updated to version 2.1.0 or 
later.