E0401 import-error

Message

'Unable to import %s'

Description

Used when pylint has been unable to import a module.

False positive: Missing dependency

In the following example, we run pylint in an enviroment where we miss the dependecy that provides the modules some_lib and some_other_lib.

import some_other_lib
from some_lib import some_name

1:0: E0401: Unable to import 'some_other_lib'
2:0: E0401: Unable to import 'some_lib'

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