False positive bad-continuation error

[pylint-bot]

Originally reported by: Tim Leslie (BitBucket: timl, GitHub: @timl?)

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PEP 8 states:

The closing brace/bracket/parenthesis on multi-line constructs may either line up under the first non-whitespace character of the last line of list...

The following code, which is valid according to PEP8,

test1 = ["foo",
         "bar",
         "baz"
         ]

gives this error:

C:  4, 0: Wrong continued indentation.
         ]
        |^ (bad-continuation)

I'm currently running the latest pylint installed via pip (1.4.4).

➜  src  pylint --version
No config file found, using default configuration
pylint 1.4.4, 
astroid 1.3.8, common 1.0.2
Python 2.7.8 |Anaconda 1.9.1 (x86_64)| (default, Aug 21 2014, 15:21:46) 
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5577)]

The example taken directly from the PEP 8 text does not produce the error:

my_list = [
    1, 2, 3,
    4, 5, 6
    ]

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/logilab/pylint/issue/638

[abendebury]

Problem persists in pylint 1.6.1.

[PCManticore]

I don't think this was actually solved.

[jocephus]

+1

[jonesambrosi]

+1

[sethlivingston]

Still in 1.7.4.

[PCManticore]

The issue is not closed yet, so even if there is a new release, it won't be part of it.

[return42]

@PCManticore: this bug was already reported by @pylint-bot in 2014. Can we continue the discussion in #289, please?

[Pierre-Sassoulas]

bad-continuation has been removed in #3571, black or another formatter can help you with this better than Pylint