pylint/checkers/typecheck.py
def _no_context_variadic(node, variadic_name, variadic_type, variadics):
    """Verify if the given call node has variadic nodes without context

    This is a workaround for handling cases of nested call functions
    which don't have the specific call context at hand.
    Variadic arguments (variable positional arguments and variable
    keyword arguments) are inferred, inherently wrong, by astroid
    as a Tuple, respectively a Dict with empty elements.
    This can lead pylint to believe that a function call receives
    too few arguments.
    """
    statement = node.statement()
    for name in statement.nodes_of_class(astroid.Name):
        if name.name != variadic_name:
            continue

        inferred = safe_infer(name)
        if isinstance(inferred, (astroid.List, astroid.Tuple)):
            length = len(inferred.elts)
        elif isinstance(inferred, astroid.Dict):
            length = len(inferred.items)
        else:
            continue

        inferred_statement = inferred.statement()
        if not length and isinstance(inferred_statement, astroid.FunctionDef):
            is_in_starred_context = _has_parent_of_type(node, variadic_type, statement)
            used_as_starred_argument = _is_name_used_as_variadic(name, variadics)
            if is_in_starred_context or used_as_starred_argument:
                return True
    return False
def _no_context_variadic(node, variadic_name, variadic_type, variadics):
    """Verify if the given call node has variadic nodes without context

    This is a workaround for handling cases of nested call functions
    which don't have the specific call context at hand.
    Variadic arguments (variable positional arguments and variable
    keyword arguments) are inferred, inherently wrong, by astroid
    as a Tuple, respectively a Dict with empty elements.
    This can lead pylint to believe that a function call receives
    too few arguments.
    """
    statement = node.statement()
    for name in statement.nodes_of_class(astroid.Name):
        if name.name != variadic_name:
            continue

        inferred = safe_infer(name)
        if isinstance(inferred, (astroid.List, astroid.Tuple)):
            length = len(inferred.elts)
        elif isinstance(inferred, astroid.Dict):
            length = len(inferred.items)
        else:
            continue

        inferred_statement = inferred.statement()
        if not length and isinstance(inferred_statement, astroid.FunctionDef):
            is_in_starred_context = _has_parent_of_type(node, variadic_type, statement)
            used_as_starred_argument = _is_name_used_as_variadic(name, variadics)
            if is_in_starred_context or used_as_starred_argument:
                return True
    return False
Verify if the given call node has variadic nodes without context

    This is a workaround for handling cases of nested call functions
    which don't have the specific call context at hand.
    Variadic arguments (variable positional arguments and variable
    keyword arguments) are inferred, inherently wrong, by astroid
    as a Tuple, respectively a Dict with empty elements.
    This can lead pylint to believe that a function call receives
    too few arguments.