extension-pkg-allow-list seems to be ignored

[Conkey100]

Bug description

All of the directives in the .pylintrc file are honoured except extension-pkg-allow-list.

# Example
from wx import MessageBox

Configuration

[MAIN]

extension-pkg-allow-list=wx

Command used

It is built into my IDE (Spyder v6.1)

Pylint output

No name 'MessageBox' in module 'wx'

Expected behavior

It should read the wx module and only flag miss-spelled, incorrect, etc. members

Pylint version

pylint 3.3.8
astroid 3.3.11
Python 3.12.11 | packaged by conda-forge | (main, Jun  4 2025, 14:45:31) [GCC 13.3.0]

OS / Environment

Mint 22.1 Cinnamon

Additional dependencies

[DanielNoord]

It could also be that even with the allow list we still have trouble understanding the package. Did this work on an earlier version?

Also note that you are not using the latest version of pylint, so updating is likely better.

[Conkey100]

I haven't used pylint before, so I can't comment directly on whether it was working earlier. When I noticed the issue (every line using wxPython was flagged as an error) , I did a search and found several posts on stack overflow and the wxPython forums stating that everything worked as expected after adding it to the allow list. Here is an example

I'm unfortunately not able to upgrade pylint as it is built into the IDE.

When I have time in a couple of days, I will try with a stand-alone version.