Update astroid to version 2.12.1

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astroid version 2.12.1

1. • Check the upstream
     https://github.com/PyCQA/astroid/tree/v2.12.1
2. • Check the pinnings

requires-python = ">=3.7.2"
https://github.com/PyCQA/astroid/blob/v2.12.1/pyproject.toml#L33

wrapt>=1.11,<2
https://github.com/PyCQA/astroid/blob/v2.12.1/pyproject.toml#L36

"lazy_object_proxy>=1.4.0"
https://github.com/PyCQA/astroid/blob/v2.12.1/pyproject.toml#L35

typed-ast>=1.4.0,<2.0
https://github.com/PyCQA/astroid/blob/v2.12.1/pyproject.toml#L37

typing-extensions>=3.10
https://github.com/PyCQA/astroid/blob/v2.12.1/pyproject.toml#L38

"setuptools~=62.6"
"wheel~=0.37.1"
https://github.com/PyCQA/astroid/blob/v2.12.1/pyproject.toml#L2

3. • Check the changelogs

   https://github.com/PyCQA/astroid/blob/v2.12.1/ChangeLog

   What's New in astroid 2.12.1?
   =============================
   Release date: 2022-07-10

• Fix a crash when inferring old-style string formatting (%) using tuples.

• Fix a crash when None (or a value inferred as None) participates in a
  ** expression.

• Fix a crash involving properties within if blocks.

What's New in astroid 2.12.0?

Release date: 2022-07-09

• Fix signal has no connect member for PySide2 5.15.2+ and PySide6

  Closes #4040, #5378

• astroid now requires Python 3.7.2 to run.

• Avoid setting a Call as a base for classes created using six.with_metaclass().

  Refs Crash argument of type 'Const' is not iterable pylint-dev/pylint#5935

• Fix detection of builtins on PyPy 3.9.

• Fix re brain on Python 3.11. The flags now come from re._compile.

• Build nodes.Module for frozen modules which have location information in their
  ModuleSpec.

  Closes #1512

  collections_abc will be frozen in 3.11
  collections_abc will be frozen in 3.11 pylint-dev/astroid#1512

• The astroid.mixins module has been deprecated and marked for removal in 3.0.0.

  Closes #1633

  Move mixins.py to astroid.nodes._base_nodes
  Move mixins.py to astroid.nodes._base_nodes pylint-dev/astroid#1633

• Capture and log messages emitted by C extensions when importing them.
  This prevents contaminating programmatic output, e.g. pylint's JSON reporter.

  Closes Pylint not suppressing the stdout of C loaded extensions pylint-dev/pylint#3518

• Calls to str.format are now correctly inferred.

  Closes astroid v2.12.10 conda-forge/astroid-feedstock#104, Closes #1611

  Infer calls to str.format() on names #
  Infer calls to str.format() on names pylint-dev/astroid#1611

• __new__ and __init__ have been added to the ObjectModel and are now
  inferred as BoundMethods.

• Old style string formatting (using % operators) is now correctly inferred.

  Closes #151

  Infer string interpolation with %
  Infer string interpolation with % pylint-dev/astroid#151

• Adds missing enums from ssl module.

  Closes ssl.VerifyMode and other Enums not recognized pylint-dev/pylint#3691

• Remove dependency on pkg_resources from setuptools.

  Closes #1103

  Remove dependency to setuptools and distutil
  Remove dependency to setuptools and distutil pylint-dev/astroid#1103

• Allowed AstroidManager.clear_cache to reload necessary brain plugins.

• Fixed incorrect inferences after rebuilding the builtins module, e.g. by calling
  AstroidManager.clear_cache.

  Closes #1559

  Pollution test cases
  Pollution test cases pylint-dev/astroid#1559

• On Python versions >= 3.9, astroid now understands subscripting
  builtin classes such as enumerate or staticmethod.

• Fixed inference of Enums when they are imported under an alias.

  Closes False positive no-member for enum.Enum when imported with alias pylint-dev/pylint#5776

• Rename ModuleSpec -> module_type constructor parameter to match attribute
  name and improve typing. Use type instead.

• ObjectModel and ClassModel now know about their __new__ and __call__ attributes.

• Fixed pylint not-callable false positive with nested-tuple assignment in a for-loop.

  Refs False positive not callable for function call in dictionary  pylint-dev/pylint#5113

• Instances of builtins created with __new__(cls, value) are now inferred.

• Infer the return value of the .copy() method on dict, list, set,
  and frozenset.

  Closes #1403

  dict.copy() result is not inferred as dict
  dict.copy() result is not inferred as dict pylint-dev/astroid#1403

• Fixed inference of elements of living container objects such as tuples and sets in the
  sys and ssl modules.

• Add pathlib brain to handle pathlib.PurePath.parents inference.

  Closes pylint trigger false-positive no-member error when using pathlib.Path parents function  pylint-dev/pylint#5783

• Avoid inferring the results of ** operations involving values greater than 1e5
  to avoid expensive computation.

  Closes Slow performance with large numbers pylint-dev/pylint#6745

• Fix test for Python 3.11. In some instances err.__traceback__ will
  be uninferable now.

• Add brain for numpy core module einsumfunc.

  Closes False positive E1130 invalid-unary-operand-type from Numpy einsum pylint-dev/pylint#5821

• Infer the DictUnpack value for Dict.getitem calls.

  Closes #1195

  getitem does not infer the actual unpacked value
  getitem does not infer the actual unpacked value pylint-dev/astroid#1195

• Fix a crash involving properties within try ... except blocks.

  Closes Incorrect too-many-function-args for a function defined and called within a class pylint-dev/pylint#6592

• Prevent creating Instance objects that proxy other Instances when there is
  ambiguity (or user error) in calling __new__(cls).

  Refs TypeError: getattr() got an unexpected keyword argument 'class_context' pylint-dev/pylint#7109

What's New in astroid 2.11.7?

Release date: 2022-07-09

• Added support for usedforsecurity keyword to hashlib constructors.

  Closes hashlib constructors unexpected-argument false positive for usedforsecurity pylint-dev/pylint#6017

• Updated the stdlib brain for subprocess.Popen to accommodate Python 3.9+.

  Closes False positive unexpected-keyword-arg for user keyword argument in subprocess.Popen() pylint-dev/pylint#7092

What's New in astroid 2.11.6?

Release date: 2022-06-13

• The Qt brain now correctly treats calling .disconnect() (with no
  arguments) on a slot as valid.

• The argparse brain no longer incorrectly adds "Namespace" to the locals
  of functions that return an argparse.Namespace object.

  Refs unused-variable false-positive regression for argparse.Namespace pylint-dev/pylint#6895

What's New in astroid 2.11.5?

Release date: 2022-05-09

• Fix crash while obtaining object_type() of an Unknown node.

  Refs Crash when attempting to access a builtin's __code__ pylint-dev/pylint#6539

• Fix a bug where in attempting to handle the patching of distutils by virtualenv,
  library submodules called distutils (e.g. numpy.distutils) were included also.

  Refs Pylint (>=2.13.0) cannot find misc_util module in numpy.distutils pylint-dev/pylint#6497

What's New in astroid 2.11.4?

Release date: 2022-05-02

• Fix col_offset attribute for nodes involving with on PyPy.

• Fixed a crash involving two starred expressions: one inside a comprehension,
  both inside a call.

  Refs Crash in IterableChecker with starred expression pylint-dev/pylint#6372

• Made FunctionDef.implicit_parameters return 1 for methods by making
  FunctionDef.is_bound return True, as it does for class methods.

  Closes False positive no-value-for-parameter for Qt methods pylint-dev/pylint#6464

• Fixed a crash when _filter_stmts encounters an EmptyNode.

  Closes Crash when linting LeoQt pylint-dev/pylint#6438

What's New in astroid 2.11.3?

Release date: 2022-04-19

• Fixed an error in the Qt brain when building instance_attrs.

  Closes 'str' object has no attribute 'parent' pylint-dev/pylint#6221

• Fixed a crash in the gi brain.

  Closes Crash invalid enum value: 6 when importing cairo pylint-dev/pylint#6371

What's New in astroid 2.11.2?

Release date: 2022-03-26

• Avoided adding the name of a parent namedtuple to its child's locals.

  Refs TypeError: '<' not supported between instances of 'int' and 'NoneType' pylint-dev/pylint#5982

What's New in astroid 2.11.1?

Release date: 2022-03-22

• Promoted getattr() from astroid.scoped_nodes.FunctionDef to its parent
  astroid.scoped_nodes.Lambda.

• Fixed crash on direct inference via nodes.FunctionDef._infer.

  Closes #817

IndexError in FunctionDef._infer()
pylint-dev/astroid#817

What's New in astroid 2.11.0?

Release date: 2022-03-12

• Add new (optional) doc_node attribute to nodes.Module, nodes.ClassDef,
  and nodes.FunctionDef.

• Accessing the doc attribute of nodes.Module, nodes.ClassDef, and
  nodes.FunctionDef has been deprecated in favour of the doc_node attribute.
  Note: doc_node is an (optional) nodes.Const whereas doc was an (optional) str.

• Passing the doc argument to the __init__ of nodes.Module, nodes.ClassDef,
  and nodes.FunctionDef has been deprecated in favour of the postinit doc_node attribute.
  Note: doc_node is an (optional) nodes.Const whereas doc was an (optional) str.

• Replace custom cachedproperty with functools.cached_property and deprecate it
  for Python 3.8+.

  Closes #1410

  Replace cachedproperty with functools.cached_property (>= 3.8)
  Replace cachedproperty with functools.cached_property (>= 3.8) pylint-dev/astroid#1410

• Set end_lineno and end_col_offset attributes to None for all nodes
  with PyPy 3.8. PyPy 3.8 assigns these attributes inconsistently which could lead
  to unexpected errors. Overwriting them with None will cause a fallback
  to the already supported way of PyPy 3.7.

• Add missing shape parameter to numpy zeros_like, ones_like,
  and full_like methods.

  Closes numpy.zeros_like false positive when using shape kwarg pylint-dev/pylint#5871

• Only pin wrapt on the major version.

What's New in astroid 2.10.0?

Release date: 2022-02-27

• Fixed inference of self in binary operations in which self
  is part of a list or tuple.

  Closes False positive with operator+ and lists (no-member) pylint-dev/pylint#4826

• Fixed builtin inference on property calls not calling the postinit of the new node, which
  resulted in instance arguments missing on these nodes.

• Fixed a crash on Super.getattr when the attribute was previously uninferable due to a cache
  limit size. This limit can be hit when the inheritance pattern of a class (and therefore of the
  __init__ attribute) is very large.

  Closes linting code containing sqlalchemy FunctionElement and compiler.compiles crashes pylint with an InferenceError exception pylint-dev/pylint#5679

• Inlcude names of keyword-only arguments in astroid.scoped_nodes.Lambda.argnames.

  Closes False positive W0613 with keyword only argument pylint-dev/pylint#5771

• Fixed a crash inferring on a NewType named with an f-string.

  Closes AstroidSyntaxError when parsing NewType pylint-dev/pylint#5770

• Add support for attrs v21.3.0 which
  added a new attrs module alongside the existing attr.

  Closes #1330

  brain_attrs.py does not support attrs v21.3.0+
  brain_attrs.py does not support attrs v21.3.0+ pylint-dev/astroid#1330

• Use the end_lineno attribute for the NodeNG.tolineno property
  when it is available.

  Closes #1350

  Decorator.toline is off by 1
  Decorator.toline is off by 1 pylint-dev/astroid#1350

• Add is_dataclass attribute to ClassDef nodes.

• Use sysconfig instead of distutils to determine the location of
  python stdlib files and packages.

  Related pull requests: #1322, #1323, #1324
  Closes #1282
  Ref #1103

  Change site packages look up to use sysconfig instead of distutils
  Change site packages look up to use sysconfig instead of distutils pylint-dev/astroid#1322

  Use sysconfig.get_path instead of distutils to find stdlib
  Use sysconfig.get_path instead of distutils to find stdlib pylint-dev/astroid#1323

  Use sysconfig to determine stdlib paths for PyPy
  Use sysconfig to determine stdlib paths for PyPy pylint-dev/astroid#1324

  Python 3.10 deprecation warnings due to distutils import
  Python 3.10 deprecation warnings due to distutils import pylint-dev/astroid#1282

  Remove dependency to setuptools and distutil
  Remove dependency to setuptools and distutil pylint-dev/astroid#1103

• Fixed crash with recursion error for inference of class attributes that referenced
  the class itself.

  Closes pylint endless recursion with short example using setuptools.build_meta import pylint-dev/pylint#5408

• Fixed crash when trying to infer items() on the __dict__
  attribute of an imported module.

  Closes #1085

  AttributeInferenceError: Could not find original name for items in Import
  AttributeInferenceError: Could not find original name for items in Import pylint-dev/astroid#1085

• Add optional NodeNG.position attribute.
  Used for block nodes to highlight position of keyword(s) and name
  in cases where the AST doesn't provide good enough positional information.
  E.g. nodes.ClassDef, nodes.FunctionDef.

• Fix ClassDef.fromlineno. For Python < 3.8 the lineno attribute includes decorators.
  fromlineno should return the line of the class statement itself.

• Performance improvements. Only run expensive decorator functions when
  non-default Deprecation warnings are enabled, eg. during a Pytest run.

  Closes #1383

  Fix performance issue with inspect calls in deprecation warnings decorators
  Fix performance issue with inspect calls in deprecation warnings decorators pylint-dev/astroid#1383

What's New in astroid 2.9.3?

Release date: 2022-01-09

• Fixed regression where packages without a __init__.py file were
  not recognized or imported correctly.

  Closes #1327

  astroid 2.9.1 breaks pylint with missing init.py: F0010: error while code parsing: Unable to load file init.py
  astroid 2.9.1 breaks pylint with missing __init__.py: F0010: error while code parsing: Unable to load file __init__.py pylint-dev/astroid#1327

What's New in astroid 2.9.2?

Release date: 2022-01-04

• Fixed regression in astroid.scoped_nodes where _is_metaclass
  was not accessible anymore.

Closes #1325

Fix import astroid.scoped_nodes
pylint-dev/astroid#1325

What's New in astroid 2.9.1?

Release date: 2021-12-31

• NodeNG.frame() and NodeNG.statement() will start raising ParentMissingError
  instead of AttributeError in astroid 3.0. This behaviour can already be triggered
  by passing future=True to a frame() or statement() call.

• Prefer the module loader get_source() method in AstroidBuilder's
  module_build() when possible to avoid assumptions about source
  code being available on a filesystem. Otherwise the source cannot
  be found and application behavior changes when running within an
  embedded hermetic interpreter environment (pyoxidizer, etc.).

• Require Python 3.6.2 to use astroid.

• Removed custom distutils handling for resolving paths to submodules.

  Ref #1321

  Remove distutils path patching
  Remove distutils path patching pylint-dev/astroid#1321

• Restore custom distutils handling for resolving paths to submodules.

  Closes [2.12.x] false positives: no-name-in-module, import-error pylint-dev/pylint#5645

• Fix deque.insert() signature in collections brain.

  Closes #1260

  deque.insert() has reversed args
  deque.insert() has reversed args pylint-dev/astroid#1260

• Fix Module nodes not having a col_offset, end_lineno, and end_col_offset
  attributes.

• Fix typing and update explanation for Arguments.args being None.

• Fix crash if a variable named type is accessed with an index operator ([])
  in a generator expression.

  Closes 'ListComp' object has no attribute 'name' when variable is named "type" pylint-dev/pylint#5461

• Enable inference of dataclass import from marshmallow_dataclass.
  This allows the dataclasses brain to recognize dataclasses annotated by marshmallow_dataclass.

• Resolve symlinks in the import path
  Fixes inference error when the import path includes symlinks (e.g. Python
  installed on macOS via Homebrew).

  Closes #823
  Closes Contents of native modules not found when running in a virtualenv pylint-dev/pylint#3499
  Closes False positive on gethostname in socket module pylint-dev/pylint#4302
  Closes False positives in socket library pylint-dev/pylint#4798
  Closes Regression: False positive I1101(c-extension-no-member) for math.iclose pylint-dev/pylint#5081

What's New in astroid 2.9.0?

Release date: 2021-11-21

• Add end_lineno and end_col_offset attributes to astroid nodes.

• Always treat __class_getitem__ as a classmethod.

• Add missing as_string visitor method for Unknown node.

  Closes #1264

  'AsStringVisitor' object has no attribute 'visit_unknown'
  'AsStringVisitor' object has no attribute 'visit_unknown' pylint-dev/astroid#1264

4. • Additional research
     https://github.com/conda-forge/astroid-feedstock/issues

   There are currently no open issues mentioned at the time of the review.

5. • Verify the dev_url
     https://github.com/PyCQA/astroid
6. • Verify the doc_url

   There seems to be a redirect to the following location

   https://pylint.pycqa.org/projects/astroid/en/latest/?badge=latest

7. • License is spdx compliant
     LGPL-2.1-or-later
8. • License family is present
     LGPL
9. • Verify that the build_number is correct
10. • Verify if the package needs setuptools
      setuptools
      setuptools
11. • Verify if the package needs wheel
      wheel
12. • pip in the test section
      python
13. • Veriy the test section
14. • Verify if the package is architecture specific or Noarch
15. • Private variables are not mentioned on the recipe For example: (_private_variable)

Results:

Based on the research findings and the results we can conclude
that it is safe to update astroid to version 2.12.1

[skupr-anaconda]

I've just noticed that we need specific versions of astroid >=2.11.6,<=2.12.0-dev0 to build the latest version of pylint 2.14.5 https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/blob/566ffca72a1a08c9e7ec14383c4710d64165c592/setup.cfg#L50
The versions 2.12.1 or 2.12.2 aren't suitable for pylint. Or pylint tests can fail.