Can Textual widgets be made pylint-friendly?

[davep]

Like many folk I'm a fan of using pylint to keep me honest when writing my Python code. However, given code like this:

from textual.widgets import Static, Header, Footer

I get complaints from pylint like this:

pipenv run pylint mandelplot
************* Module mandelplot
mandelplot:24:0: E0611: No name 'Static' in module 'textual.widgets' (no-name-in-module)
mandelplot:24:0: E0611: No name 'Header' in module 'textual.widgets' (no-name-in-module)
mandelplot:24:0: E0611: No name 'Footer' in module 'textual.widgets' (no-name-in-module)

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Presumably because of the lazy-loading mechanism in use.

Is there a good way of keeping pylint happy here?

[aaronst]

Widgets could be imported under if typing.TYPE_CHECKING? Probably a hacky solution but it seems to make pylint happy.

if typing.TYPE_CHECKING:
    from ..widget import Widget
    from ._button import Button
    from ._checkbox import Checkbox
    from ._data_table import DataTable
    from ._directory_tree import DirectoryTree
    from ._footer import Footer
    from ._header import Header
    from ._placeholder import Placeholder
    from ._pretty import Pretty
    from ._static import Static
    from ._input import Input
    from ._text_log import TextLog
    from ._tree_control import TreeControl
    from ._welcome import Welcome

[willmcgugan]

Good idea!

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